Fix initial crowded <pre> output

aaronsw / html2text

Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.

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Fix initial crowded <pre> output #63

Closed wking closed 11 years ago

wking commented 11 years ago

html2text has problems when the HTML to parse starts off with:

<pre>stuff...

It works fine with

<pre>
stuff...

This problem was acknowledged in #9 https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text/issues/9#issuecomment-8735046

html2text's parsing procedure is a bit opaque to me, so this may not be the cleanest fix, but it does work.

wking commented 11 years ago

I think a proper fix for this issue would be to restructure the whole output framework to be more line-based (to make it easier to figure out where preceding whitespace comes from, and make it easier to strip trailing whitespace), but that's too big a task for me to commit to at the moment.