Pelican in CJK

Writing Pelican in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean smoothly.

Behavior Changes

Remove newline for CJK paragraph

Newline characters in a paragraph will be kept in the output HTML, then browser will interpret this newline character as a space character. This is fine in English, but it looks weird in CJK. These newline characters will be removed.

Before:

這是第一行 和第二行

After:

這是第一行和第二行

Also, if one of the characters surrounding the newline character is punctuation, it will also be removed.

Before:

句號。 English

After:

句號。English

Auto spacing

Insert spaces between a half-width (Alphabets, Numbers, Symbols) word surrounded by CJK characters.

Before:

中間的English Vocabulary單字很Beautiful。

After:

中間的 English Vocabulary 單字很 Beautiful。

Noted that if the neighbor CJK character is punctuation, space will not be added:

• 我會說 English。
• 你如果 Happy，I am happy too。

Known exceptions and notices

Auto spacing works on the HTML data without any HTML parser. For simplicity, some less used scenarios are worth noticing:

1. The title of an article cannot be changed using the HTML data, so it will not be adjusted.
2. If the word is in nested inline markup, no space will be added around it. This is not possible in reStructuredText, so only Markdown users will be affected. Examples (in HTML):
   • Nested<em><strong>行內</strong><em>Markup: Spaces should be added between Nested, 行內 and Markup. But since 行內 is in nested Markup, spaces won't be added.
3. A word in an inline markup immediately after another inline markup will not be adjusted. Examples:
   • 粗體italic
   • 程式foo_bar = 'nice'寫的不錯
4. Text in literal block will also be adjusted. Try not to mix CJK and English in this block.

Remove spacing around inline markups

This is mainly for reStructuredText since it requires a space before and after an inline markup. Because this is more aggressive behavior, it's separated from Auto spacing which you can disable independently.

Before:

中文的 粗體 會有空格。

After:

中文的粗體有空格。

Noted that this has the same limitation as Auto spacing. See Known exceptions and notices for details.

Usage

Add this plugin to your pelicanconf.py. Refer to pelican-plugins for more details:

PLUGINS = ['pelican_cjk']

# Change the default the behavior
CJK_AUTO_SPACING = False
...

These variables can be used to control the behavior:

CJK_AUTO_SPACING

Set to False to disable Auto spacing. Default to True.

CJK_REMOVE_PARAGRAPH_NEWLINE

Set to False to disable Remove newline for CJK paragraph. Default to True.

CJK_REMOVE_MARKUP_SPACING

Set to False to disable Remove spacing around inline markups. Default to True.