Newlines in Episode Descriptions?
#1
What's the proper way to handle newlines in TV episode descriptions? I just use thetvdb.com (no NFOs for TV episodes) and List view (Full), but when there's a description with newlines, it's layed out completely wrong in List View.

I can edit it so that it appears as {line 1} | {line 2 } | ..., but then it doesn't look right when I go to the Info screen of that episode.

Is there a way to have newlines in the descriptions without messing up List View? I'm on Linux, in case it's some odd problem with \r and \n.
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#2
Not an Aeon specific topic, but this is one of those things that drives me nuts with XBMC. I'm no expert in regards to skinning, but I started delving into the API / skin spec in hopes of correcting this problem (or personal preference). As far as I can tell, line handling and paragraph spacing fall under the context of XBMC itself. Theres nothing one can do from the skinning front to address the inline presentation of a text block. Something to add to the development backlog I assume.
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oo_void Wrote:Not an Aeon specific topic, but this is one of those things that drives me nuts with XBMC. I'm no expert in regards to skinning, but I started delving into the API / skin spec in hopes of correcting this problem (or personal preference). As far as I can tell, line handling and paragraph spacing fall under the context of XBMC itself. Theres nothing one can do from the skinning front to address the inline presentation of a text block. Something to add to the development backlog I assume.

Oops, sorry. I didn't know this was for XBMC in general -- I've never used a skin/view that used single-line descriptions before.

I'm with you, though -- why can't this be fixed? I'm assuming it's pretty easy. Just do a replace(description, "\n", " | ") or something. Is there a bug/feature request somewhere I can track this with?
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#4
How about some screenshots of this "messing up"?
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