- From: Arnaud Desitter <arnaud.desitter@ouce.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 15:02:01 -0000
- To: <html-tidy@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Raggett" <dsr@w3.org> Newsgroups: gmane.comp.web.html-tidy.user Cc: <html-tidy@w3.org> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:26 AM Subject: Re: tidy: request for enhancement: empty lines between block-level elements > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Amelia, > > I have forwarded your email to html-tidy@w3.org where other people > may be able to help you. I myself am no longer maintaining Tidy > and that task has been taken over by other volunteers. > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Amelia A Lewis wrote: > >> Heylas, >> >> Thanks for tidy, it's wonderful as a checking tool. >> >> I've actually got two requests for enhancement, but I suspect one >> of them is much more difficult than the other, given that tidy is >> designed around a parsed tree model. >> >> RFE: add option for empty-lines between block-level elements. >> >> Justification: I find it much easier to read and edit (x)html if >> each <p> and <hN> and so on is separated from the next by a blank >> line: >> >> <h2 class="wotsis">header</h2> >> >> <p>lorem ipsum dolor est.</p> >> >> <p>and then some.</p> >> >> tidy is useful for intelligently wrapping paras and long headings >> and things, but it strips out the useful whitespace: >> >> <h2 class="wotsis">header</h2> >> <p>lorem ipsum dolor est.</p> >> <p>and then some.</p> >> >> Clearly, this is just a preference, but it's moderately analogous >> to the existing break-before-br option (which I always turn on). >> Something like line-between-blocks. >> >> Rather than listing tags which would deserve this treatment, I'd >> suggest that all block level elements be optionally spaced in this >> fashion. This would likely produce some oddities, but for the >> most part, it would help me immensely, in using tidy for cleanup. Have you tried "--vertical-space yes" ? >> >> RFE: put two spaces after a period in text. >> >> May not be doable; less important. It's a relic of years with a >> typewriter, probably, where, again, the white space is visually >> useful to the reader/editor, because it helps set off a sentence >> more clearly. Again, the request is for an option in the config >> file, such as double-space-after-dot (I'm verbose, aren't I?). >> Again, this would produce some anomalies, but it should be doable, >> as the algorithm already wraps and sets spacing (well, does it set >> spacing, though? I admit, embarrassed, that I haven't tried to >> hack the code for either of these options). >> >> Both requests would presumably only be turned on for >> pretty-printed output, not for use of tidy as an error-checking >> tool. >> >> Thanks again, >> >> Amy! >> > > - -- > Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> W3C lead for voice and multimodal. > http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett +44 1225 866240 (or 867351) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFBlI/lb3AdEmxAsUsRAmmAAKCxX02liCulapoHx4f7m28TsBx5mQCgxIEN > Ho3mV0r+AEC4XC+zlejt4o0= > =MayB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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