Drafts on Janusworx https://janusworx.com/tags/drafts/ Recent content in Drafts on Janusworx Janusworx https://janusworx.com/images/jw-logo.png https://janusworx.com/images/jw-logo.png Hugo -- 0.157.0 en Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:35:09 +0530 Drafts App Needs Escaping if I Am to Use Hugo Shortcodes https://janusworx.com/work/drafts-app-needs-escaping-if-i-am-to-use-hugo-shortcodes/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:35:09 +0530 https://janusworx.com/work/drafts-app-needs-escaping-if-i-am-to-use-hugo-shortcodes/ <p>When I <em>finally</em> figured out how to get <a href="https://janusworx.com/blog/line-breaks-on-my-microblog/">line breaks working on my microblog</a>, I ran into another sort of hiccough, when I tried doing that from my phone.<br> I use the <a href="https://getdrafts.com/">Drafts app</a> on my phone and tablet to slice and dice all manner of text and to send it to various locations as I please.</p> <p>One of those is a workflow, that lets me shoot text to a folder on my server which is then published (via a script) on the microblog.<br> And everytime I typed my <code>{{&lt; hbr &gt;}}</code> Hugo shortcode to let me have a line break in that post<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>, it would just publish gibberish<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup> instead of giving me said break.</p> When I finally figured out how to get line breaks working on my microblog, I ran into another sort of hiccough, when I tried doing that from my phone.
I use the Drafts app on my phone and tablet to slice and dice all manner of text and to send it to various locations as I please.

One of those is a workflow, that lets me shoot text to a folder on my server which is then published (via a script) on the microblog.
And everytime I typed my {{< hbr >}} Hugo shortcode to let me have a line break in that post1, it would just publish gibberish2 instead of giving me said break.

A bit of twiddling and experimenting led me to the solution.
If I escaped the leading { character with a \, so that I typed \{{< hbr >}}, it then worked just fine!

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P.P.P.S. I need to escape my Hugo shortcodes with /* */ if I want to display them in my posts. Like so, {{/* some-shortcode */}}

  1. when it gets published on the blog, that is. ↩︎

  2. rather, ascii representations of said characters, but gibberish is the correct technical term ↩︎

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