Better formatting of prominence reasons

[RichardTaylor]

When a message is hidden or made requestor_only a reason can be provided which is shown in place of the message.

Sometimes at WhatDoTheyKnow we use this field to publish the substance of a message in the place of a message we've had to hide from public view (because it contained personal information, or was potentially defamatory etc.). This, or other uses we make of the field, sometimes mean we try and put more than a single line of text in it.

Currently line breaks are removed when displaying the "Reason for prominence". Just allowing line breaks would provide a significant improvement on the appearance when this field has more content. Ideally perhaps blockquotes, links and paragraphs might be permitted and the way the reason is shown generally improved.

Example:
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/prosecutions_by_dcal_ni#incoming-759073

While this is an issue, it affects relatively few requests so isn't very important. I'm tempted to mark it straight as "icebox" myself but will leave that to those who do the labelling/prioritising.

[garethrees]

We now have Action Text available, so we could add it to the prominence_reasons attribute. We'd have to handle conversion back to plain text though.

Alternatively we could use a combination of simple_format and our own make_clickable from commonlib.

[gbp]

We'd have to handle conversion back to plain text though.

Maybe we should tackle #3420 and complete #3498 in some form?

[garethrees]

Maybe we should tackle #3420 and complete #3498 in some form?

Don't completely disagree since I'm sure that's a factor here, but I think the text format hidden template is used when we fall back to plain text for zip downloads. I'm not sure how relevant it is in 2021, but it's typically good manners to provide a plain text version of HTML emails, so we'd probably want to consider that in some way irrespective of the approach we take here.

[garethrees]

Related to #7314.

[RichardTaylor]

Consider also the presentation of prominence reasons for attachments.

Sometimes a series of attachments will have been hidden with the same prominence reason.

[Sorry this is one of those tickets/ticket notes that arises from a new feature being deployed]

[HelenWDTK]

This issue has been automatically closed due to a lack of discussion or resolution for over 12 months.
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