[Solar-talk] retain line breaks/newline

[Paul M Jones]

On Aug 7, 2006, at 10:26 AM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:

> On 8/3/06, Antti Holvikari wrote:
>> So what I ended up doing was to use Text_Wiki markup and store
>> that "as-is" to the db. Then I made a helper to transform that to
>> XHTML with Text_Wiki. Works *exactly* as I want.
>
> Antti, you have made me interested in Text_Wiki, and reading about its
> capabilities I got even more interested.

Text_Wiki has the drawback of being PHP4 only; if you code to  
E_STRICT you're going to get lots of error notices (although it works  
just fine).

Am currently working on an updated version of it for Solar, based  
more on [Markdown][] rules than generic wiki rules.

   [Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax

Also, with the new parser, the only rendering format will be XHTML  
(rather than any output format).  I figure if you need RTF, PDF,  
LaTeX, etc. then it'll be easier to use existing tools to convert  
from XHTML as a second transformation step.  Having one target format  
makes it a hell of a lot easier to write rendering logic.


> I have a trivial question, though (couldn't find an answer in the
> docs): do you know if Text_Wiki can convert basic xhtml to wiki
> markup? I just need to convert really basic markup: em, i, b, strong,
> and href.

I don't think the package comes with an html-to-wiki renderer; that's  
kind of outside the scope of the project anyway.



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