unix/rehype-join-line

Resolve line breaks in chinese paragraphs.

rehype-join-line

rehype plugin to resolve line breaks in chinese paragraphs.

What happened?

This is a legacy issue of HTML, you can see more discussion here. In short, English needs to add spaces when wrapping paragraphs, but the Chinese characters will be split:

<p>
This is
an example
</p>

// In English, it will be rendered ->
<p>This is an example</p>

<p>
这是
一个示例
</p>

// In Chinese, it will be rendered ->
<p>这是 一个示例</p>

As we can see, there is no need for spaces in Chinese paragraphs.

In Markdown or Markdown renderer, this problem also exists. This plug-in is to help rehype solve this problem.

How to use?

Install

Run npm install rehype-join-line.

Usage

const rehype = require('rehype');
const rehypeJoinLine = require('rehype-join-line');

rehype()
  .use(rehypeJoinLine)
  .process(/* some html */);

Use in Next.js

// in next.config.js
const withMDX = require('@next/mdx')({
  extension: /\.(md|mdx)?$/,
  options: {
    rehypePlugins: [require('rehype-join-line')],
  },
})

module.exports = withMDX({
  // next config
})

How to work?

In Chinese: Please wrap after Chinese punctuation, all excess white space will be removed automatically.

In English: No impact.

E.g.

// before
你好，
这个世界

// it will be rendered ->
<p>你好， 这个世界</p>

// after
你好，
这个世界

// it will be rendered ->
<p>你好，这个世界</p>

LICENSE

Licensed under the MIT LICENSE.