Preserve line-breaks in display of comments (string descriptions) about weblate

[nijel]

I am not convinced that white-space: pre-line is the way to go as some discarding of newlines is desired as these are typically present just for line-wrapping purposes. As screen width varies, we would rather not preserve line breaks present in the code.

The root cause here is merging two scopes of comments. I don't recall such a concept being used in any other format. Maybe supporting some syntax in the field to allow structuring it?

[henry-torproject]

Maybe supporting some syntax in the field to allow structuring it?

Could a double line break \n\n work?

The root cause here is merging two scopes of comments.

There are other cases. The convention in Fluent is put put variables on new lines: example.

But even pontoon doesn't seem to preserve them.

[nijel]

Yes, sometimes line breaks make sense to be preserved, sometimes not (example from the same project).

Current behavior seems to work well for most of the use-cases, so let's not change it for the most typical case (single \n). Treating \n\n as a line break (or rather a paragraph separator) might be a way to go.