Re: Literals with Spaces in Sphinx

ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote or quoted:

But if you make these three changes to the Sphinx
"docutils/parsers/rst/states.py" file, it works
(no guarantees, try it at your own risk!):

  What are those spaces at the start or end of a literal even
  supposed to be good for? They might not be the best idea if you
  think about what HTML or LaTeX could do with them (line break!).
  But I wanted to generate reST, and it made me uneasy to think
  that certain characters just could not be in certain spots . . .