Re: [O] Bug: text export and multi-word link descriptions with line breaks

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Mathias Bauer <address@hidden> writes:

> I just stumbled over Org's plain text export and how it works on
> links with descriptions consisting of multiple words and line
> breaks between them.  I'm running Org stable version 8.2.5h.
>
> Org source (spaces at the end of line 1 and 2 don't matter):
>
> --------------------snip--------------------
> "OpenPGP Message Format" ([[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880][RFC
> 4880]] which obsoletes [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1991][RFC
> 1991]] and [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2440][RFC 2440]])...
> ...
> foo [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880][RFC 4880]] bar
> baz [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1991][RFC 1991]] foo
> bar [[https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2440][RFC 2440]] baz
> --------------------snip--------------------
>
> Text export result:
>
> --------------------snip--------------------
> "OpenPGP Message Format" ([RFC 4880] which obsoletes [RFC 1991] and [RFC
> 2440])...  ...  foo [RFC 4880] bar baz [RFC 1991] foo bar [RFC 2440] baz
>
>
> [RFC 4880] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880
>
> [RFC 1991] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1991
>
> [RFC 2440] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2440
>
> [RFC 4880] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880
>
> [RFC 1991] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1991
> --------------------snip--------------------
>
> These multiple references look quite bad.  Is it possible to
> "normalize" the descriptions in some way *before* checking them
> for uniqueness and output them thereafter?
>
> Thanks for considering this issue.

Could you be more explicit? What does look quite bad? What did you
expect instead? How is related to line breaks in the descriptions?


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou