I thought that excessive blank lines had been sorted

[#1]

This issue still remains however in some post that I've seen.

[#2]

Well a linky would be good Because of the nature of the 'fix' it works retrospectively AFAIKS.

[#3]

Ha, I tell you an issue that does remain and definitely need to be fixed @jaread83, and that is all the blanks lines that get removed from a post still remain in the notification email if you allow HTML and choose the 'Email content Subject and body'

[#4]

@Anotherone, @jaread83 - Well I was looking for a link and I thought I found one, but on viewing the actual post the extra space is eliminated, but not when viewed via the unread posts page.

However, if you actually read this post, it is as I've said, 'cleaned' up. As regards the email the 'removal' of the blank lines is only for cosmetic purposes while viewing and will remain in the original source, as they're not filtered out prior to submission but after on display.

[#5]

I'm seriously beginning to believe that the "modules" that make up this forum are more "disjointed" that one might imagine.

Is this if you are viewing the <Show Full Text> of the post on the Unread Posts tab @Anonymous ? - That's what I find when looking at that.

I also found it when reading the OP there as well.

 end of msg #1 in 'Upgrding To Fiber'' (& title of next message) in Unread Posts module

As previously mentioned, Jack's script can only work on the post once posted, it can't intercept it between compilation and posting. So I'm guessing that the script is only applied to posts on boards? and maybe not to the other 'modules'? Something perhaps only Jack can advise.
However that doesn't appear to be the only issue. As the thread has been marked as Fixed, the relevant "Go to the Fix" has been added to the OP, but clearly this is done before Jack's script gets to it and so all the space now remains in the post.

end of OP of 'Upgrding To Fiber' after Fix message applied

Whether or not Jack's script can either intercept the message before the Fix message is applied (which I doubt) or perhaps he could modify it to look for a 'Fix' message and then look for the blank lines before it.

Certainly an interesting one for @jaread83 to look at when he gets back from his break.

[#6]

Yes @Anotherone that's what I see too. All of the redundant white space is present in the message in that view, but is trimmed (correctly, for me at least) when viewing the thread in its own right.

It would appear that the script does only exist for the displaying of messages as opposed to the preview in the unread section; but that's not to say it couldn't be included there, but that's one for @jaread83.

In an ideal world the empty space would never make it to the back end database and be trimmed at source as part of a pre-post function, but I don't think there is access to that component, at least not by Plusnet staff.

[#7]

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Mook wrote:

In an ideal world the empty space would never make it to the back end database and be trimmed at source as part of a pre-post function, but I don't think there is access to that component, at least not by Plusnet staff.

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There isn't as Jack mentioned a while back. Clearly his fix should be applied by Lithium between post compilation and posting, but I doubt we'll ever see that, and there are more important things for them to fix IMHO.

[#8]

I have made a note to include my script (or variation of) on the unread posts/threads page. It wont happen right away but can easily be fixed so I will get it scheduled in.

[#9]

Anything you can do about the emails Jack?

[#10]

unfortunately no. As Mook said in another post, the content would need to be processed before it is stored in the database. The best I can do is make sure that posts are rendered correctly on the site.