From lists at ruby-forum.com  Thu Aug  5 12:49:28 2010
From: lists at ruby-forum.com (James King)
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 18:49:28 +0200
Subject: Stripping textile markup
Message-ID: <87250ea61028d54e4bf0e3a97b69fe03@ruby-forum.com>

Hello,

I have come across certain situations where text marked up with textile
syntax needs to be displayed where HTML isn't wanted. For example, in
the title element of a an HTML page.

In these situations, I would like a way of stripping away the textile
markup from a string and displaying it completely "naked" - without HTML
tags and, crucially, without the textile markup too.

So:

>> The _quick_ brown "fox":/fox.html jumps over the *lazy* dog's tail.

becomes

>> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?s tail.

(N.B. In the example above, I still want my punctuation made pretty
"dog's tail" should still become "dog?s tail" )

What's the best way of doing this? If there isn't an elegant way of
doing it, could Redcloth have a to_plaintext method?

Thanks,

- James
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

From judofyr at gmail.com  Thu Aug  5 13:04:17 2010
From: judofyr at gmail.com (Magnus Holm)
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:04:17 +0200
Subject: Stripping textile markup
In-Reply-To: <87250ea61028d54e4bf0e3a97b69fe03@ruby-forum.com>
References: <87250ea61028d54e4bf0e3a97b69fe03@ruby-forum.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTimVyWeDpiFPentFw+ji1TJmUUd5SfOcd7Aonn8G@mail.gmail.com>

You could use Nokogiri:

    require 'redcloth'
    require 'nokogiri'

    html = RedCloth.new(str).to_html
    plaintext = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(html).text

// Magnus Holm



On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 18:49, James King <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have come across certain situations where text marked up with textile
> syntax needs to be displayed where HTML isn't wanted. For example, in
> the title element of a an HTML page.
>
> In these situations, I would like a way of stripping away the textile
> markup from a string and displaying it completely "naked" - without HTML
> tags and, crucially, without the textile markup too.
>
> So:
>
>>> The _quick_ brown "fox":/fox.html jumps over the *lazy* dog's tail.
>
> becomes
>
>>> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?s tail.
>
> (N.B. In the example above, I still want my punctuation made pretty
> "dog's tail" should still become "dog?s tail" )
>
> What's the best way of doing this? If there isn't an elegant way of
> doing it, could Redcloth have a to_plaintext method?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - James
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> _______________________________________________
> Redcloth-upwards mailing list
> Redcloth-upwards at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/redcloth-upwards

From lists at ruby-forum.com  Thu Aug  5 13:54:17 2010
From: lists at ruby-forum.com (James King)
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 19:54:17 +0200
Subject: Stripping textile markup
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimVyWeDpiFPentFw+ji1TJmUUd5SfOcd7Aonn8G@mail.gmail.com>
References: <87250ea61028d54e4bf0e3a97b69fe03@ruby-forum.com>
	<AANLkTimVyWeDpiFPentFw+ji1TJmUUd5SfOcd7Aonn8G@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <878208b46ba556ba179b199d6a13023a@ruby-forum.com>

Thanks Magnus!

Magnus Holm wrote:
> You could use Nokogiri:
> 
>     require 'redcloth'
>     require 'nokogiri'
> 
>     html = RedCloth.new(str).to_html
>     plaintext = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(html).text
> 
> // Magnus Holm

This works nicely. Have also found an example using Hpricot

http://wiki.github.com/hpricot/hpricot/hpricot-challenge (see under 
"Strip All HTML Tags").

I'm happy using this, but I'm still left wondering whether it would make 
more sense for RedCloth to have an elegant "to_plaintext" method. It 
seems better not to go through an HTML intermediate stage.

Best,

- James
-- 
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

From jg at jasongarber.com  Sun Aug  8 07:20:42 2010
From: jg at jasongarber.com (Jason Garber)
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 07:20:42 -0400
Subject: Stripping textile markup
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimVyWeDpiFPentFw+ji1TJmUUd5SfOcd7Aonn8G@mail.gmail.com>
References: <87250ea61028d54e4bf0e3a97b69fe03@ruby-forum.com>
	<AANLkTimVyWeDpiFPentFw+ji1TJmUUd5SfOcd7Aonn8G@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CDE8C850-6015-46F8-949B-16078A142DAD@jasongarber.com>

That's a simple, elegant solution!  I was going to suggest writing your own formatter that passed everything through without adding anything, but that's way too much work!

On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Magnus Holm wrote:

> You could use Nokogiri:
> 
>    require 'redcloth'
>    require 'nokogiri'
> 
>    html = RedCloth.new(str).to_html
>    plaintext = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(html).text
> 
> // Magnus Holm
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 18:49, James King <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have come across certain situations where text marked up with textile
>> syntax needs to be displayed where HTML isn't wanted. For example, in
>> the title element of a an HTML page.
>> 
>> In these situations, I would like a way of stripping away the textile
>> markup from a string and displaying it completely "naked" - without HTML
>> tags and, crucially, without the textile markup too.
>> 
>> So:
>> 
>>>> The _quick_ brown "fox":/fox.html jumps over the *lazy* dog's tail.
>> 
>> becomes
>> 
>>>> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?s tail.
>> 
>> (N.B. In the example above, I still want my punctuation made pretty
>> "dog's tail" should still become "dog?s tail" )
>> 
>> What's the best way of doing this? If there isn't an elegant way of
>> doing it, could Redcloth have a to_plaintext method?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> - James
>> --
>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>> _______________________________________________
>> Redcloth-upwards mailing list
>> Redcloth-upwards at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/redcloth-upwards
> _______________________________________________
> Redcloth-upwards mailing list
> Redcloth-upwards at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/redcloth-upwards


From judofyr at gmail.com  Tue Aug 10 16:08:17 2010
From: judofyr at gmail.com (Magnus Holm)
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:08:17 +0200
Subject: Stripping textile markup
In-Reply-To: <CDE8C850-6015-46F8-949B-16078A142DAD@jasongarber.com>
References: <87250ea61028d54e4bf0e3a97b69fe03@ruby-forum.com> 
	<AANLkTimVyWeDpiFPentFw+ji1TJmUUd5SfOcd7Aonn8G@mail.gmail.com> 
	<CDE8C850-6015-46F8-949B-16078A142DAD@jasongarber.com>
Message-ID: <AANLkTikgssb2-4jyqd706P7BGUi=vemOefFE9yyXUuo_@mail.gmail.com>

You should probably add that as a TODO, since I've seen plenty of
sites who uses the Textile source as a simple plaintext-preview (where
a proper formatter would definitely be better).

// Magnus Holm



On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 13:20, Jason Garber <jg at jasongarber.com> wrote:
> That's a simple, elegant solution! ?I was going to suggest writing your own formatter that passed everything through without adding anything, but that's way too much work!
>
> On Aug 5, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Magnus Holm wrote:
>
>> You could use Nokogiri:
>>
>> ? ?require 'redcloth'
>> ? ?require 'nokogiri'
>>
>> ? ?html = RedCloth.new(str).to_html
>> ? ?plaintext = Nokogiri::HTML.fragment(html).text
>>
>> // Magnus Holm
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 18:49, James King <lists at ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I have come across certain situations where text marked up with textile
>>> syntax needs to be displayed where HTML isn't wanted. For example, in
>>> the title element of a an HTML page.
>>>
>>> In these situations, I would like a way of stripping away the textile
>>> markup from a string and displaying it completely "naked" - without HTML
>>> tags and, crucially, without the textile markup too.
>>>
>>> So:
>>>
>>>>> The _quick_ brown "fox":/fox.html jumps over the *lazy* dog's tail.
>>>
>>> becomes
>>>
>>>>> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog?s tail.
>>>
>>> (N.B. In the example above, I still want my punctuation made pretty
>>> "dog's tail" should still become "dog?s tail" )
>>>
>>> What's the best way of doing this? If there isn't an elegant way of
>>> doing it, could Redcloth have a to_plaintext method?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> - James
>>> --
>>> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Redcloth-upwards mailing list
>>> Redcloth-upwards at rubyforge.org
>>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/redcloth-upwards
>> _______________________________________________
>> Redcloth-upwards mailing list
>> Redcloth-upwards at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/redcloth-upwards
>
> _______________________________________________
> Redcloth-upwards mailing list
> Redcloth-upwards at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/redcloth-upwards
>

From ibc at aliax.net  Sun Aug 29 13:59:39 2010
From: ibc at aliax.net (=?UTF-8?Q?I=C3=B1aki_Baz_Castillo?=)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 19:59:39 +0200
Subject: <dl> with multiple <dd>
Message-ID: <AANLkTim+-YXSpcN9dmV_fr6fUydYz+cZUqTXT__yPcX1@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, I basically want to get this HTML output:

-------------------------
<dl>
	<dt>Paragraphs</dt>
	<dd>First paragraph.</dd>
	<dd>Second paragraph.</dd>
</dl>
-------------------------

In this way, I can add a vertical separation (margin-top) between both
paragraphs.


However using RedCloth I cannot get it:

----------------------------
- Paragraphs := First paragraph.
Second paragraph.
----------------------------

maps to:

----------------------------
<dl>
	<dt>Paragraphs</dt>
	<dd>First paragraph.<br />
Second paragraph.</dd>
</dl>
----------------------------


RedCloth inserts a <br /> so it's not possible to simulate a vertical
separation with N pixels between both "paragraphs". Is there a
workaround for achieving it?

Thanks a lot.



-- 
I?aki Baz Castillo
<ibc at aliax.net>

From ibc at aliax.net  Sun Aug 29 14:02:22 2010
From: ibc at aliax.net (=?UTF-8?Q?I=C3=B1aki_Baz_Castillo?=)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:02:22 +0200
Subject: Possible bug when using definition list with no body
Message-ID: <AANLkTik0gnk_vP7J09cXVh6Wb6KR+k-upBfYin_S6xp6@mail.gmail.com>

Hi, the following incomplete definition list breaks the rest of the
textile document:

------------------------
- hello :=

h1. Title

some text.
-----------------------

maps to:

-----------------------
<dl>
	<dt>hello</dt>
------------------------


As you can see, <dl> is not terminated. Is it a bug?

Regards.


-- 
I?aki Baz Castillo
<ibc at aliax.net>