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Merge pull request #137 from PaulMcMillan/improve_whitespace_docs
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Improve whitespace docs to reflect reality.
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mitsuhiko committed Jul 5, 2012
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Whitespace Control
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In the default configuration whitespace is not further modified by the
template engine, so each whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines etc.) is returned
unchanged. If the application configures Jinja to `trim_blocks` the first
newline after a a template tag is removed automatically (like in PHP).
In the default configuration, a single trailing newline is stripped if
present, and whitespace is not further modified by the template engine. Each
whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines etc.) is returned unchanged. If the
application configures Jinja to `trim_blocks` the first newline after a a
template tag is removed automatically (like in PHP).

But you can also strip whitespace in templates by hand. If you put an minus
sign (``-``) to the start or end of an block (for example a for tag), a
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