gemini: Prettify "link lists"

default conversion doesn't do a good job

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/converters/md_to_gemini.py b/converters/md_to_gemini.py
index 524f17e..80ede7b 100644
--- a/converters/md_to_gemini.py
+++ b/converters/md_to_gemini.py
@@ -3,6 +3,23 @@ from os import walk
 import os.path
 from md2gemini import md2gemini
 
+def merge_lines(input_text):
+    lines = input_text.strip().splitlines()
+    result = []
+    previous_line_was_arrow = False
+
+    for line in lines:
+        stripped = line.strip()
+        if stripped == '' or stripped == '*':
+            if previous_line_was_arrow:
+                continue
+
+        result.append(line)
+        previous_line_was_arrow = stripped.startswith('=>')
+
+    return '\n'.join(result)
+
+
 def convert_md_to_gemini():
     for file in os.listdir("output/markdown"):
         with open("output/markdown/" + str(file), "r") as f:
@@ -10,6 +27,7 @@ def convert_md_to_gemini():
             f.close()
 
         f = open("output/gemini/" + str(file).replace(".md", ".gmi"), "w")
+        gemini = merge_lines(gemini)
         f.write(gemini)
         f.close()
     for file in os.listdir("output/gemini"):