Yes I fully agree with you regarding the user base of nano, I just did not know if other editors behave like that.
Also I think some of the plain text markup languages (eg. RestracturedText) use double line breaks to indicate new paragraphs and so hard line breaks are permitted. However as LibLouisUTDML would not deal with other markup in these files then may be it is irrelevant as one might do better to write an external RST to XML conversion filter and pass in the XML.
Considering how little the text file input stuff does, I am not really sure of the value of the text file support directly built in to LibLouisUTDML, one possibly would always want an external filter to handle the text formatting the user is using (may it be RST, markdown, textile, etc).
If anything is to be done with the LibLouisUTDML code to adjust paragraph handling, I would suggest it would have to be a configuration option. What the default value should be is something I would let someone else decide, possibly it should be new paragraph on a line break. What it should not be is hard coded in to LibLouisUTDML, I am sure that there would always be someone wanting something slightly different.
Michael Whapples On 28/03/2014 07:26, Keith Creasy wrote:
Hi Michael. It is also a very old editor, previously known as Pico and most likely older than you. :) It is used by a relatively small number of mostly Linux programmers and administrators and not much if at all for general content authoring. It is my editor of choice for Linux scripts but I don't even use it for much else but that and writing commit log messages from within Git and Mercurial. Again, I'm fine with a configuration to make it optional but the default should be that new-line chars mark the beginning of a paragraph and the configuration option for the rare occaisons when someone might actually be using an obscure text file that contains hard line breaks. My opinion is that the current implementation is wrong based on current conventions. Keith Yes, I regard Nano as an isolated exception -----Original Message----- From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Whapples Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 4:05 PM To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Paragraphs in Text Files I don't know as to how widely spread text files with hard line breaks are, but I believe in some text editors (eg. nano on Linux) that if one uses line wrap it will insert hard line breaks. May be nano is an isolated example. The ideal for the user would be to add a configuration option. Michael Whapples On 27/03/2014 18:05, Keith Creasy wrote:OK. Does anyone use this for text files with hard line breaks in them? Can we just change it so it uses new-line chars to start new paragraphs as the default? I haven't seen a text file with hard line breaks in it since about 1986. Keith -----Original Message----- From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:36 AM To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Paragraphs in Text Files Not yet. Besides a new configuration setting it would be necessary to modify the functions in transcriber.c that deal with text files. John On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 02:51:59PM +0000, Keith Creasy wrote:Hello. Is there a setting that would cause LibLouisUTDML to treat each new-line in a text file as the beginning of a new paragraph? By default it seems to require a blank line, that is two new-line characters, to do this. Most text editors these days use a new-line to begin a new paragraph. Thanks. Keith-- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.comFor a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com ��u� �*m���~�^������h�yhiحjwe�y,��k�7����z�(��m���� n)b�'����com=
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