Oops, forgot about the indenting -- just replace all spaces with " ":
{{=XML(site.other.replace('\n', '<br>').replace(' ', ' '),
sanitize=True, permitted_tags=['br/'])}}
Anthony
On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 2:29:51 PM UTC-4, Steven Vannoy wrote:
>
> Thanks, the replace option from @Anthony worked pretty well, it got the
> new lines but didn't provide indentation (as expected). The <pre></pre>
> tags get both, and I like the font well enough except that it is a lighter
> gray on a gray background so if I can manage to get that changed I'll
> probably go with that option.
>
> Yes Dave, you were right it wasn't stripping the asterisks but wasn't
> rendering them the way I would like.
>
> Steven
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 2:01:09 PM UTC-4, Dave S wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm going to go out on a limb, and opine that you never even get the
>>> newlines or indentation (but do get the asterisks), all that having been
>>> stripped out by the textarea input control.
>>>
>>
>> No, a textarea does preserve newlines.
>>
>> Anthony
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