minirst: create valid output when table data contains a newline When table data contained a newline, the result of minirst.maketable did not look nice plus it was not recognised by minirst.format: == === ==== l1 1 one l2 2 2 22 l3 == === ==== This problem occurred when the description of options had a very long translation which was split by newlines. Do not bother a translator with this detail. The multiline translations for option descriptions have been fixed in baf1600adfbe in it.po, de.po and ro.po. I manually did the same as this patch does, I removed the newlines. When a newline was in the description, this created unusable help output: $ hg help somecommand hg somecommand [option]... with somecommand, you can... options: == =================== ======================================================= =================================== --longdesc VALUE xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -n --norm normal desc --newline VALUE line1 line2 == =================== =============== =========================================================================== now this looks much nicer: ... options: --longdesc VALUE xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -n --norm normal desc --newline VALUE line1 line2

--- a/tests/test-minirst.py	Wed Mar 05 14:03:08 2014 +0100
+++ b/tests/test-minirst.py	Wed Feb 19 17:32:21 2014 +0100
@@ -244,3 +244,14 @@
 print table
 
 debugformats('table', table)
+
+data = [['s', 'long', 'line\ngoes on here'],
+        ['', 'xy', 'tried to fix here\n        by indenting']]
+
+rst = minirst.maketable(data, 1, False)
+table = ''.join(rst)
+
+print table
+
+debugformats('table+nl', table)
+