#505 Curious repeated paragraph

[Harmen]

When the following is parsed, the line that says "this is repeated" appears twice as a paragraph.

=========
section 1
=========

---
abc
---

this is repeated

=========
section 2
=========

It is fixed by:

1. Adding an additional newline after the sentence
2. Using 4 hyphens ---- instead of 3 --- above and below abc
3. Removing the upper ---

Pandoc renders this as expected (at least by me).

[engelbert gruber]

sections do not have overlines (upper) only the document title

[Harmen]

Fair point, but a bug nonetheless.

[Harmen]

@grubert actually that is not documented: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html

I think the example should be fine according to that specification.

In any case, it's a bug to have the paragraph repeated.

[engelbert gruber]

you are completely right, i just happened to never have used upperlines

but now i know how put chapter titles

please bear with me, if this is not fixed in 0.22

cheers and many thanks

[engelbert gruber]

could you test with the prerelease

make a env, install latest release candidate

mkdir testdir
cd testdir
python3 -m venv .
. bin/activate
pip install --pre docutils

run the test
rst2html dbl-par.rst

i do not get duplication

[Günter Milde]

This seems to be by-effect of the legacy algorithm for parsing section titles (cf. [bugs:#346]).
This is fixed by [patches:#213].

[Günter Milde]

The bug is fixed in Docutils 0.22 released 2025-07-29.
Thank you for reporting.