How can I keep Jekyll from adding whitespace in highlight?

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I'm currently experimenting with Jekyll. Most things look fine, but the way Jekyll processes code highlighting seems to be buggy. I use pygments. Then Jekyll seems to use pieces like: ``` {% highlight python %} #!/usr/bin/env python def wer(r, h): """ {% endhighlight %} ``` to generate code like ```

 #!/usr/bin/env python def wer(r, h): """  Calculation of WER with Levenshtein distance.  Works only for iterables up to 254 elements (uint8).  O(nm) time ans space complexity. [...] doctest.testmod()

``` which looks like The problem is whitespace betwe…

Accepted Answer

This problem is caused by Liquid, the templating engine of Jekyll (see Issue 216 of Liquid and Issue 1806 of Jekyll). The current (12.12.2013) answer to this question is: You cannot keep Jekyll from adding those whitespaces. But a fix to the underlying problem is to remove the whitespaces after all pages have been compiled. I've written the following Python script to do so: ``` #!/usr/bin/env python import re, fnmatch, os def removeWhitespace(file_path): #read file content with open(file_path) as f: content = f.read() #replace whitespace openingTag = re.compile('

\s*\s*

', re.DOTALL) if re.findall(openingTag, content): content = re.sub(openingTag, '

', content) #write without whitespace with open(file_path,'w') as f: f.write(content) # Get all HTML files files = [] for root, dirnames, filenames in os.walk('.'): for filename in fnmatch.filter(filenames, '*.html'): files.append(os.path.join(root, filename)) for filename in files: removeWhitespace(filename) ```

How can I keep Jekyll from adding whitespace in highlight?

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