Discussion @11822 How to document a long URI/URL link

- allow multiple, no consecutive newlines in markdown types of url.
- correcting small, subsequent, problems in latex and docbook output.

Author: albert-github

src/docbookgen.cpp

@@ -1494,7 +1494,12 @@ QCString convertToDocBook(const QCString &s, const bool retainNewline)
   {
     switch (c)
     {
-      case '\n': if (retainNewline) growBuf.addStr("<literallayout>&#160;&#xa;</literallayout>"); growBuf.addChar(c);   break;
+      case '\n': if (retainNewline)
+                 {
+                   growBuf.addStr("<literallayout>&#160;&#xa;</literallayout>");
+                   growBuf.addChar(c);
+                 }
+                 break;
       case '<':  growBuf.addStr("&lt;");   break;
       case '>':  growBuf.addStr("&gt;");   break;
       case '&':  // possibility to have a special symbol

src/latexgen.cpp

@@ -2679,6 +2679,7 @@ QCString latexFilterURL(const QCString &s)
       case '#':  t << "\\#"; break;
       case '%':  t << "\\%"; break;
       case '\\':  t << "\\\\"; break;
+      case '\n':  break; // ignore
       default:
         if (c<0)
         {

src/markdown.cpp

@@ -1324,20 +1324,28 @@ int Markdown::Private::processLink(const std::string_view data,size_t offset)
     if (i<size && data[i]=='<') { i++; uriFormat=true; }
     size_t linkStart=i;
     int braceCount=1;
+    int nlConsec = 0;
     while (i<size && data[i]!='\'' && data[i]!='"' && braceCount>0)
     {
       if (data[i]=='\n') // unexpected EOL
       {
         nl++;
-        if (nl>1) { return 0; }
+        nlConsec++;
+        if (nlConsec>1) { return 0; }
       }
       else if (data[i]=='(')
       {
         braceCount++;
+        nlConsec = 0;
       }
       else if (data[i]==')')
       {
         braceCount--;
+        nlConsec = 0;
+      }
+      else if (data[i]!=' ')
+      {
+        nlConsec = 0;
       }
       if (braceCount>0)
       {