It's a reference node. The relevant lines are this: refnode = nodes.reference('', '', internal=True) refnode['reftitle'] = title
Where the variable 'title' is holding the matter that is supposed to include the line breaks. Thanks! On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 10:47:28 PM UTC-6, Komiya Takeshi wrote: > > Hi Chad, > > How do you generate <a> tag in your extension? custom node? raw node? > or other solution? > The extensions can enhance Sphinx by many ways. So I need to know the > your strategy. > > Thanks, > Takeshi KOMIYA > > 2019年2月7日(木) 7:38 Chad S <chads...@gmail.com <javascript:>>: > > > > Hi, > > > > Working on an extension for Sphinx 1.6.6. I need to obtain output in > html that, among other things, will do something like this in links that > get written: > > > > <a href="page.html" title="Some text. > > A second line of text. > > For clarity, a third."> > > > > Yes, ugly, but the tooltip in the browser is lineated and that is > meaningful. > > > > However, the two pythonic means of putting breaks in strings aren't > working. > > > > stringval = 'Some text.\r\nA second line of text.\r\nFor clarity, a > third' > > > > or > > > > stringval ='''Some text. > > A second line of text. > > For clarity, a third.''' > > > > In both cases, the final output is: > > > > <a href="age.html" title="Some text. A second line of text. For clarity, > a third."> > > > > The breaks seem to have been stripped out. > > > > Also, attempts to use " ", which are valid for raw html, do not work > because Sphinx seems to inflexibly convert any ampersand it finds to > "&". So this: > > > > stringval='"Some text. A second line of text For clarity, a > third.' > > > > turns into this: > > > > <a href="page.html" title="Some text.&#13;A second line of > text.&#13;For clarity, a third."> > > > > Any advice on how to get the needed line breaks to the final output? > > > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sphinx-users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to sphinx-users...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sphinx...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sphinx-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sphinx-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.