[Typo3] Paragraph Bug?

[Christopher]

Hello again,

--- Robert Markula <robert.markula at gmx.net> wrote:
> Christopher wrote:
> (...)
> >>The second flaw is that each linebreak in the backend becomes a new 
> >>paragraph in the frontend. IMHO this should be a simple <br /> instead,
> 
> >>because a paragraph has semantically another meaning.
> >>A new paragraph is usually indicated by an empty line in the Backend.
> (...)
> > This might be a stupid question, but do you know how to type <br /> and
> > <p>? Text editors conventionally output a line feed (<br />) when you
> type
> > [SHIFT-RETURN] and a carriage return (<p>) when you type [RETURN]. As
> far
> > as I'm able to tell, Typo3's RTE transformations conform to this
> convention
> > (but, as Oliver suggested, check the 'doNotConvert' setting...)
> 
> Hi Christopher,
> You're right, but here's where various editors differ. E.g. in 
> wikipedia, a linebreak entered with the return key is ignored; and a 
> paragraph is created by a blank line. Other editors encapsulate the 
> whole text in one big paragraph, handling line breaks with <br /> and a 
> blank line with <br /><br />.
> Other editors like the one in Typo3 treat every linebreak as a new 
> paragraph.
> 
> Is there any standard that defines some behaviour in this case?
> 
> I'm asking because a paragraph is normally defined as a block of text 
> that is textual related and, according to html specs, can contain any 
> number of linebreaks.
> So according to this statement, a linebreak inside a paragraph should be 
> <br />, no?
> 

I actually think what defines the actual characters inserted by
[return]/[shift-return] is the way the OS treats html textareas. However,
Typo3 processes the input, and can be configured to convert - or not to
convert - line feeds (<br />) to carriage returns(<p>&nbsp;</p>) [1].

As Oliver suggested in his reply, you may need to add this

RTE.default.proc {
dontConvBRtoParagraph = 1
}

to the TSconfig field in the page header of your root page.


-Christopher

[1] http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_core_tsconfig/Introduction-56/


		
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