To much empty lines in post

[Offerel]

Detailed description

There seems to be to much space or empty lines in some posts, so that they look strange. Example post: https://pixelfed.social/p/nhoizey/739018826511637678

Expected look:

in Tusky:

Steps to reproduce the problem

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Debug information

Tusky 26.1 F-Droid

[connyduck]

Oh no, this is a tricky one.
The think is, Pixelfed seems to use both newlines and <br/> tags, while Mastodon usually only has <br/> tags.
Tusky displays both because there are other edge cases where this is necessary. Ignoring newlines would fix this issue, but cause problems elsewhere. 😕

Thanks for reporting though, I'll see if something can be done that works in all cases.

[Offerel]

I assume tusky converts <br/> to newline or newline to be <br/>. If a double newline or <br/> is removed after this conversion or it detects a newline followed by <br/>, the extra newline should be ignored.

In my opinion, it should be a rare case, that a newline followed by a <br/> is intentionally. But if you have multiple <br/>, this could be a wanted double newline. At least this is how I would handle that for example in my Primitivenotes Project. But that's PHP and a complete other story.

[connyduck]

@Offerel very good idea, thx