iwpublish and displaying description text with newlines

I'd like to publish an edition with description text containing newlines.

It seems I can do this (iwpublish doesn't mind you passing such text), but when you view the edition list in the UI, the new lines are gone and the text is all rolled together on a single line.

Presumably the UI is doing this on purpose, but I'd like to know if there's a way around it, or if there is any other way I could add formatting to the displaying of this text.

Thanks in advance

Rob

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ISCBorisB

Presumably the UI is doing this on purpose...

It does not. It's browser interface, you know perhaps that browsers treat new lines (CR/LF or just LF, regardless) as blank space.
You may want to try to add <br> Tags, see if that helps.

rob1234

It does not. It's browser interface, you know perhaps that browsers treat new lines (CR/LF or just LF, regardless) as blank space.
You may want to try to add <br> Tags, see if that helps.

That was the first thing I tried, the text is converted to html entities, so you just end up seeing the html you entered as is, rather than any formatting it might have done.

ISCBorisB

That was the first thing I tried, the text is converted to html entities, so you just end up seeing the html you entered as is, rather than any formatting it might have done.

You are SOL then. Short of hacking JSP that generates this view (hardly worth the efforts IMO) I do not see how else you can do it.

Adam Stoller

I'd like to publish an edition with description text containing newlines.

It seems I can do this (iwpublish doesn't mind you passing such text), but when you view the edition list in the UI, the new lines are gone and the text is all rolled together on a single line.

Presumably the UI is doing this on purpose, but I'd like to know if there's a way around it, or if there is any other way I could add formatting to the displaying of this text.

Thanks in advance

Rob

If you run iwattrib vpath-to-edition label - you should be able to get the original description with newlines intact.