From a71fcfc5e5fd3f39799b44edc7e18371ecaf6eda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alexander Borsuk <me@alex.bio>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:33:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Updated script to clean up unnecessary trailing whitespaces
 and insert newlines

---
 update_news.js | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/update_news.js b/update_news.js
index 91a0a1de..a550ccca 100644
--- a/update_news.js
+++ b/update_news.js
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ function slugify(text) {
   return text;
 }
 
+const trailingSpacesRE = / +\n/sg;
+
 function toMarkdown(node, date) {
   const time = date.substring(11, 16);
   // News web page title.
@@ -71,11 +73,13 @@ function toMarkdown(node, date) {
   if (!node) return frontmatter;
 
   let content = nhm.translate(node.innerHTML);
+  // Clean up some unnecessary whitespaces after nhm conversion.
+  content = content.replaceAll(trailingSpacesRE, '\n');
   // We use other dots for lists.
   content = content.replaceAll('• ', '* ');
   // Telegram makes emoji bold italic.
   content = content.replaceAll(emojiRE, '$1');
-  return frontmatter + content;
+  return frontmatter + content + '\n'; // Trailing newline for consistency.
 }
 
 if (process.argv.length > 2) {