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Excerpts with a leading space
I’m using this code to populate the meta description in <head>:
<meta name=“description” content=”<txp:if_individual_article><txp:if_excerpt><txp:rah_replace from=”<p>,</p>” to=”,”><txp:excerpt /></txp:rah_replace></txp:if_excerpt></txp:if_individual_article>” />
…and it outputs the (Textiled) excerpt with a leading space, regardless of whether there’s a leading space in the excerpt or not, like this:
<meta name=“description” content=” This is an excerpt”>
The space appears before the <p> tag, which I’ve zapped with rah_replace. If I disable Textile for excerpts, the leading space disappears and I don’t need to use rah_replace. On the grounds that I can’t enable Textile for body and disable it for excerpt (or can I?), I figure rah_replace can save the day. I’ve tried the following code to zap the leading space before the <p> (note the extra space before <p>):
<meta name=“description” content=”<txp:if_individual_article><txp:if_excerpt><txp:rah_replace from=” <p>,</p>” to=”,”><txp:excerpt /></txp:rah_replace></txp:if_excerpt></txp:if_individual_article>” />
…but that doesn’t pick up the leading space and this happens:
<meta name=“description” content=” <p>This is an excerpt”>
I understand Textile formatting can be circumvented by starting the paragraph with a leading space, but I don’t have one in this case.
Yours confused-ly,
Uncle Pete
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Re: Excerpts with a leading space
OK, so I can enable Textile for body and disable it for excerpt — upm_textile_toggle is where it’s at. My question about the leading space still stands — anomaly, intended behaviour or something else?
Last edited by gaekwad (2012-11-29 15:48:53)
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Re: Excerpts with a leading space
You can also start the excerpt with a space which cancels the <p> tag. Also v4.5+ provides the possibility of non textiled excerpt
Last edited by colak (2012-11-29 17:04:57)
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Re: Excerpts with a leading space
colak wrote:
You can also start the excerpt with a space which cancels the <p> tag
Thanks, Yiannis. Do you have any idea where the space might be coming from if I don’t start the excerpt with a space?
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gaekwad wrote:
Do you have any idea where the space might be coming from if I don’t start the excerpt with a space?
Hmmm, doesn’t for me if I turn Leave text untouched on for Excerpts (under Advanced options on the Write panel – shouldn’t need a plugin for this unless I’ve missed something). But with it being Textiled then yes, there’s a tab character before the opening <p> tag. Try zapping that character instead of a space.
However, if you use an opening space then it seems you’re damned in this context because the opening space that you use to disable Textile gets included in the content. Not good. Erm, yeah, ummm, not sure sound of feet rapidly disappearing into the distance
Last edited by Bloke (2012-11-29 18:30:38)
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#6 2012-11-29 18:40:13
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Re: Excerpts with a leading space
gaekwad wrote:
OK, so I can enable Textile for
bodyand disable it forexcerpt— upm_textile_toggle is where it’s at.
You can do that without the plugin, under Advanced Options…
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To be honest I would get too bothered about meta description, it’s going the way of meta keywords (I.e. redundant). I’m not including it at all any more.
If you’re using HTML5 doctype then I’d recommend learning about semantics and microdata instead. Google loves the microdata (since they helped create it).
Schema.org is a good place to start.
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philwareham wrote:
To be honest I would get too bothered about meta description, it’s going the way of meta keywords
True, but it doesn’t solve the annoying Textile tab-at-the-start thing. Never figured out why that’s there. Might see if I can debug it later if I get half an hour spare, but if it’s a feature of Textile instead of (as I suspect) the way Txp uses it, then it’ll need to be raised as an issue on the Textile development git repo. Will report here if I find anything either way.
Last edited by Bloke (2012-11-29 19:43:51)
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Re: Excerpts with a leading space
@bloke
If you’re looking into that space, the comments also take some weird spacing as noted in textpattern issue 303
Might be related, or at least fixable in the same way.
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That indentation is a Textile feature. Certain block-level tags including paragraphs and lists are indented by tab characters.
During the development the indentation has gotten bit random tho, I have to admit. Not all blocks are indented, some spawn different amount of newlines and newlines do stack up, and where indentation is present, it isn’t inherited.
Anyhow, removing those tab characters doesn’t take more than search-n-replacing ‘\t’ from Textile’s source.
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Does it need an issue raised on the Textile GitHub repo?
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