Retain newline characters in Transcription display (old UMedia discards them, does not translate as <br> a la nl2br)

[mberkowski]

Retain newline characters in Transcription display (old UMedia discards them, does not translate as
a la nl2br)

This might be merely a display issue where the view templates need to make <br> out of \n but it might also be that the indexer is discarding them via a filter in config/initializers/cdmdexer.yml

[mberkowski]

@theberg75 As we've started to dive into this a little bit, I had thought we already had obvious examples where CONTENTdm had newlines in transcriptions that UMedia was throwing away, but looking over some items where I would expect to find line breaks in the transcriptions, they don't seem to be there in CONTENTdm's JSON.

https://server16022.contentdm.oclc.org/dmwebservices/index.php?q=dmGetItemInfo/p16022coll629/707/json
https://server16022.contentdm.oclc.org/dmwebservices/index.php?q=dmGetItemInfo/p16022coll621/143/json

Do you know of any items in CONTENTdm that do have newline \n characters encoded in the transcription?

[theberg75]

Not off the top of my head but I can dig around unless @jasonoroy - do you know of any?