[LUCENE-1610] Preserve whitespace in <code> sections in the Changes.html generated from CHANGES.txt by changes2html.pl

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.9
• Fix Version/s: 2.9
• Component/s: general/website
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steven Rowe
• Created: 24/Apr/09 21:16
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 11:59
• Resolved: 24/Apr/09 22:21

Description

The Trunk section of CHANGES.txt sports use of a new feature: <code> sections, for the two mentions of LUCENE-1575.

This looks fine in the text rendering, but looks crappy in the HTML version, since changes2html.pl escapes HTML metacharacters to appear as-is in the HTML rendering, but the newlines in the code are converted to a single space.

I think this should be fixed by modifying changes2html.pl to convert <code> and </code> into (unescaped) <code><pre> and </pre></code>, respectively, since just passing through <code> and </code>, without </?pre>, while changing the font to monospaced (nice), still collapses whitespace (not nice).

See the java-dev thread that spawned this issue here: http://www.nabble.com/CHANGES.txt-td23102627.html