Peter Hansen

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Comment: HTML writer adds inappropriate whitespace

My bad, the problem is in the Sphinx visit_abbreviation() routine, not in the docutils one. (I'm still in the "getting lost in the code" stage on these tools.) I can confirm that the implementation of visit_abbreviation() in docutils in fact correctly overrides the "suffix" arg to avoid the problem anyway. I'll report against Sphinx instead. Sorry to waste your time and thanks for the...

2009-07-16 15:08:42 UTC in Docutils: Documentation Utilities
HTML writer adds inappropriate whitespace

When using the abbr role with HTML output, a newline is inserted inappropriately in the "abbr" element after the text. An example where this produces incorrect output is "(:abbr:`TLA (Three Letter Acronym)`)". The output will show the abbreviation in parentheses with a leading space like "( TLA)" because of the newline that's added. Admittedly this is unusual, putting an abbreviation...

2009-07-16 14:12:19 UTC in Docutils: Documentation Utilities