From deae30c65f457cb461064a0b2e584139bbdfb0ca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20Mee=C3=9Fen?= <christian.meessen@gfz-potsdam.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:31:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] wip: removing line breaks

---
 main.py | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index a6787b6..f403230 100755
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -64,7 +64,13 @@ def get_md_without_front_matter(file):
     # Parse to remove html tags
     md_parser = parser.SvHtmlParser()
     md_parser.feed(raw_markdown)
-    return md_parser.close().to_markdown()
+
+    md_parsed = md_parser.close().to_markdown()
+
+    # Remove single line breaks which should not be rendered
+    md_final = re.sub(r'(?<=[\w., ])(\n)(?=[\w., ])', ' ', md_parsed)
+
+    return md_final
 
 
 def get_spotlights():

From 0df60e5674cd9d9cba83f0ba7c8b67ac522a2a5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20Mee=C3=9Fen?= <christian.meessen@gfz-potsdam.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 14:43:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Remove line breaks in paragraphs

---
 main.py | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index f403230..3760b9e 100755
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -67,10 +67,21 @@ def get_md_without_front_matter(file):
 
     md_parsed = md_parser.close().to_markdown()
 
-    # Remove single line breaks which should not be rendered
-    md_final = re.sub(r'(?<=[\w., ])(\n)(?=[\w., ])', ' ', md_parsed)
+    # Now split by code blocks
+    md_split = md_parsed.split(r"```")
+    if len(md_split) % 2 == 0:
+        raise Exception(
+            "There was an error parsing markdown code blocks in %s" % file
+        )
+
+    # Remove line breaks inside paragraphs, because they would be rendered as <br>
+    # Only every scond block, because we do not want to replace newlines in code blocks
+    for i in range(0, len(md_split), 2):
+        md_split[i] = re.sub(
+            r"(?<=[\w., \(\)\[\]])(\n)(?=[\w., \(\)\[\]])", " ", md_split[i]
+        )
 
-    return md_final
+    return "```".join(md_split)
 
 
 def get_spotlights():