Status: Accepted
Owner: ----
Labels: Type-Defect Priority-Medium Target-2.7.2 bwic
New issue 1135 by robotframew...@gmail.com: Inconsistent handling of
documentation paragraphs in log/report vs. libdoc
http://code.google.com/p/robotframework/issues/detail?id=1135
Currently libdoc combines lines that it considers part of same paragraph
together, but docs in log/report this is not done. This means that the
documentation rules are depended where the documentation is used.
We decided to fix this by combining lines together into paragraphs in
html_format method and to wrap them into <p></p>. As a result we also need
to handle lists and footnotes separately as otherwise they would end up
into paragraphs unformatted. A separate issue will be submitted about that.
The change is backwards incompatible because the resulting docs change. In
most cases the change should be only to better, but if someone has created
special formatting expecting lines not to be combined things can go wrong.
We decided to do the change in a minor release anyway because the current
situation is buggy/inconsistent and the change shouldn't affect test
execution results.
