Question about reformatting <aside> elements (Sigil 0.9.13)

mrprobert · 06-03-2019, 07:39 PM

Hi,

I have an epub3 with this code:

<body>
<aside epub:type="footnote">
Text
here,
and here.
</aside>
</body>

After reformatting I expect:

<body>
<aside epub:type="footnote">
Text here, and here.
</aside>
</body>

But instead I see this:

<body>
<aside epub:type="footnote">
Text
here,
and here.
</aside>
</body>

Is Sigil's behavior correct for this example?

mrprobert · 06-03-2019, 07:43 PM

The tabbing disappeared from my post; hopefully the gist is apparent. Thanks.

KevinH · 06-03-2019, 08:04 PM

It isn't apparent. And what type of reformatting? A Mend? A Prettify?, a Plugin?

DiapDealer · 06-03-2019, 08:59 PM

Prettifying doesn't seem to be collapsing whitespace in the textual contents of aside (or div) tags like it does for most other tags. Not sure if that's by design or not.

mrprobert · 06-03-2019, 09:43 PM

I did a mend and prettify code. What I expected was that the 3 lines of text would be concatenated.

It ended up looking like this:

Code:

<body>
  <aside epub:type="footnote">
    Text
here,
and here.
  </aside>
</body>

KevinH · 06-03-2019, 10:15 PM

It is as designed. Bare text whose parent is a structural tag will not have its whitespace condensed. This set of structural tags is:

Code:

static std::unordered_set<std::string> structural_tags     = {
  "article","aside","blockquote","body","canvas","colgroup","div","dl",
  "figure","footer","head","header","hr","html","ol","section",
  "table","tbody","tfoot","thead","td","th","tr","ul"
};

So if you were to make that bare text the child of a p tag or a span tag, and place it inside a structural tag, then the text whitespace would be condensed.

mrprobert · 06-03-2019, 10:24 PM

Ah, I see. Thank you.

06-03-2019, 07:39 PM	#1
mrprobert Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 46 Join Date: Mar 2017 Device: None	Question about reformatting <aside> elements (Sigil 0.9.13) Hi, I have an epub3 with this code: <body> <aside epub:type="footnote"> Text here, and here. </aside> </body> After reformatting I expect: <body> <aside epub:type="footnote"> Text here, and here. </aside> </body> But instead I see this: <body> <aside epub:type="footnote"> Text here, and here. </aside> </body> Is Sigil's behavior correct for this example?

06-03-2019, 08:59 PM	#4
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 28,930 Karma: 207182180 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	Prettifying doesn't seem to be collapsing whitespace in the textual contents of aside (or div) tags like it does for most other tags. Not sure if that's by design or not. Last edited by DiapDealer; 06-03-2019 at 09:01 PM.

06-03-2019, 09:43 PM	#5
mrprobert Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 46 Join Date: Mar 2017 Device: None	I did a mend and prettify code. What I expected was that the 3 lines of text would be concatenated. It ended up looking like this: Code: <body> <aside epub:type="footnote"> Text here, and here. </aside> </body>

06-03-2019, 10:15 PM	#6
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,121 Karma: 6404930 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	It is as designed. Bare text whose parent is a structural tag will not have its whitespace condensed. This set of structural tags is: Code: static std::unordered_set<std::string> structural_tags = { "article","aside","blockquote","body","canvas","colgroup","div","dl", "figure","footer","head","header","hr","html","ol","section", "table","tbody","tfoot","thead","td","th","tr","ul" }; So if you were to make that bare text the child of a p tag or a span tag, and place it inside a structural tag, then the text whitespace would be condensed.

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06-03-2019, 07:43 PM	#2
mrprobert Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 46 Join Date: Mar 2017 Device: None	The tabbing disappeared from my post; hopefully the gist is apparent. Thanks.

06-03-2019, 08:04 PM	#3
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,121 Karma: 6404930 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	It isn't apparent. And what type of reformatting? A Mend? A Prettify?, a Plugin?

06-03-2019, 10:24 PM	#7
mrprobert Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 46 Join Date: Mar 2017 Device: None	Ah, I see. Thank you.

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