ttx parser breaks if line doesn't end with space about anystyle HOT 5 CLOSED

We're talking about the space after the | here, right?

While we can make the parser more lenient here, the reasoning behind this strictness was that we absolutely want to insure that the original input can be reconstructed. That means you should be able to strip the prefix on every line in order to get back the original input. If we allow variance here it becomes tricky: for example, for a line that has something like blank | \n in it, it will become impossible to know how many spaces there were before the newline in the original input.

In a sense it would be more useful to have no space after the | but with the space it's more pleasing on the eyes. The TTX format wasn't really planned as a format, it's something that evolved while trying to quickly tag documents by hand. So instead of trying to make this work I guess it would be better to switch to XML.

from anystyle.

My preference would still be allowing no space since it is just syntax, isn't it? No information is lost since no space means the line is blank, with or without the space. If that's not what you want, please add a rescue section which throws an error that indicates which line is the problem, so that one has a chance to find the document and fix it (maybe adding some context, since the name of the document is unavailable). As it is right now, I (and others) have no clue what is causing the problem, it took me quite a while to understand why the error occurred at all.

Switching to XML would certainl be preferrable since also this would allow to use transformed TEI documents (i.e. from GROBID). However, this would mean that I have to rewrite quite a bit of my app and I'd rather avoid that at this point.

from anystyle.

To be more precise: no space would mean that there aren't any additional spaces in the line. So in this regard
blank |\n and
blank | \n
are equivalent, they both would tranlate into \n when reconstructing the document.

from anystyle.

OK I added this as an exception. You can use it in 1.4.1

from anystyle.

great, thank you!

from anystyle.