How to deal with hyperlinks in jade templates?

[binarykitchen]

Hello again

I'm struggling to translate text in jade templates that contain hyperlinks. For example:

!{t('A <a href="/faq">faq page</a> to answer the usual questions')}

This does not look nice. I don't want to save HTML tags in translation files. How would you solve his?

[jamuhl]

we do it this way:

a(href!=t('ns.routes:link.info.href'))=t('ns.routes:link.info.text')

[binarykitchen]

good to know to use namespaces but i meant a link inside a long sentence.

it would be wrong to split up the sentence into three fragments like

A
faq page
to answer the usual questions

translation would be horrible. advice?

[jamuhl]

if splitting is no option - where i agree you could still use postProcessors:

write the content in markdown or jade: http://i18next.com/node/pages/doc_templates.html

http://i18next.com/node/pages/doc_features.html#postprocessing

[binarykitchen]

ok, i tried with markdown for postprocess but it generates invalid html code. this jade line here
p!=t('Especially [webcam integration (getUserMedia)](http://caniuse.com/stream).', {"postProcess": "markdown"})

produces duplicate p tags:
<p><p>Especially <a href="http://caniuse.com/stream">webcam integration (getUserMedia)</a>.</p></p>

why?

postprocessor is normal as suggested:

    i18n.addPostProcessor('markdown', function(val, key, opts) {
        return require('markdown').markdown.toHTML(val);
    });

[jamuhl]

markdown syntax a line is always a p tag.

just don't append to a p tag in your jade file:

div
  !=t('Especially [webcam integration (getUserMedia)](http://caniuse.com/stream).', {"postProcess": "markdown"})

[binarykitchen]

ouch, that's not what i want.

i want to translate each single sentence within a long paragraph. translating a whole paragraph might be a bad idea. can we somehow tell markdown not to add a p tag?

[jamuhl]

don't know if there is some option to change this - my bet is no - as this is what markdown is for - publishing content.

[jamuhl]

not sure if the issues title is right markdown doesn't wrap in a p tag...it's more every sentence beginning with a newline will be a paragraph:

This is my first
sentence on multiple lines.

This another sentence.

will be parsed to:

<p>This is my first sentence on multiple lines.</p>
<p>This another sentence.</p>