Re: [Docutils-users] Really surprising behavior

[David A. <da...@bo...>]

David Goodger <go...@py...> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> When I format the following as HTML with the current CVS
>> 
>> ---
>> * User Guided wrapping
>>    * Require minimal user intervention
>>    * But intervention must be possible when needed
>> ---
>> 
>> It looks like:
>> 
>> ---
>> *
>>         User Guided wrapping
>>                 * Require minimal user intervention
>>                 * But intervention must be possible when needed
>> ---
>> 
>> Is that to be expected?
>
> Pretty much.  The indentation of nested lists is critical.  It's informative
> to see how the parser interprets this input.  I use the command::
>
>     python tools/quicktest.py
>
> And feed the above as input to stdin, this is what comes out
> (wrapped a bit)::
>
>     <document source="<stdin>">
>         <bullet_list bullet="*">
>             <list_item>
>                 <definition_list>
>                     <definition_list_item>
>                         <term>
>                             User Guided wrapping
>                         <definition>
>                             <bullet_list bullet="*">
>                                 <list_item>
>                                     <paragraph>
>                                         Require minimal user
>                                         intervention
>                                 <list_item>
>                                     <paragraph>
>                                         But intervention must be
>                                         possible when needed
>
> You've got a bullet list item containing a definition list item
> containing a bullet list in the definition.  Reduce the indentation of
> lines 2 & 3 by one space each and I think you'll get what you want.

Ouch, that didn't work:

quicktest.py results:

<document source="<stdin>">
    <bullet_list bullet="*">
        <list_item>
            <paragraph>
                User Guided wrapping
                * Require minimal user intervention
                * But intervention must be possible when needed

--

HTML snippet:

<div class="document">
<ul class="simple">
<li>User Guided wrapping
* Require minimal user intervention
* But intervention must be possible when needed</li>
</ul>
</div>

>> Why the CR after the initial bullet?
>
> That I can't tell you.  What browser?  

IE6

> What stylesheet?

The one from your tools/ subdirectory

>> The command I used was:
>> 
>>     python /src/docutils/tools/html.py --embed-stylesheet -gdts \
>>         fu.txt fu.html
>
> Was the stylesheet successfully embedded?  Please check.

Yup.

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