Rich Text

Ported from https://github.com/quilljs/delta, this library provides an elegant way of creating, manipulating, iterating, and transforming rich-text deltas and documents with a ruby-native API.

rich-text (aka Quill delta) is a format for representing attributed text. It aims to be intuitive and human readable with the ability to express any possible document or diff between documents.

This format is suitable for operational transformation and defines several functions (compose, transform, transform_position, and diff) to support this use case.

For more information on the format itself, please consult the original README: https://github.com/quilljs/delta

Docs

Please see the generated API docs for more details on all of the available classes and methods.

TODO

Implement Delta#include?(other)
Finish writing tests

Quick Example

gandalf = RichText::Delta.new([
  { insert: 'Gandalf', attributes: { bold: true } },
  { insert: ' the ' },
  { insert: 'Grey', attributes: { color: '#ccc' } }
])
# => #<RichText::Delta [insert="Gandalf" {"bold"=>true}, insert=" the ", insert="Grey" {"color"=>"#ccc"}]>

# Keep the first 12 characters, delete the next 4, and insert a white 'White'
death = RichText::Delta.new
                       .retain(12)
                       .delete(4)
                       .insert('White', { color: '#fff' })
# => #<RichText::Delta [retain=12, delete=4, insert="White" {:color=>"#fff"}]>

gandalf.compose(death)
# => #<RichText::Delta [insert="Gandalf" {"bold"=>true}, insert=" the ", insert="White" {:color=>"#fff"}]>

Operations

Insert Operation

Insert operations have an insert key defined. A String value represents inserting text. Any other type represents inserting an embed (however only one level of object comparison will be performed for equality).

In both cases of text and embeds, an optional attributes key can be defined with an Hash to describe additonal formatting information. Formats can be changed by the retain operation.

# Insert a bolded "Text"
{ insert: "Text", attributes: { bold: true } }

# Insert a link
{ insert: "Google", attributes: { link: 'https://www.google.com' } }

# Insert an embed
{
  insert: { image: 'https://octodex.github.com/images/labtocat.png' },
  attributes: { alt: "Lab Octocat" }
}

# Insert another embed
{
  insert: { video: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg' },
  attributes: {
    width: 420,
    height: 315
  }
}

Delete Operation

Delete operations have a Number delete key defined representing the number of characters to delete. All embeds have a length of 1.

# Delete the next 10 characters
{ delete: 10 }

Retain Operation

Retain operations have a Number retain key defined representing the number of characters to keep (other libraries might use the name keep or skip). An optional attributes key can be defined with an Hash to describe formatting changes to the character range. A value of null in the attributes Hash represents removal of that key.

Note: It is not necessary to retain the last characters of a document as this is implied.

# Keep the next 5 characters
{ retain: 5 }

# Keep and bold the next 5 characters
{ retain: 5, attributes: { bold: true } }

# Keep and unbold the next 5 characters
# More specifically, remove the bold key in the attributes Hash
# in the next 5 characters
{ retain: 5, attributes: { bold: null } }

HTML Formatting

Rich-text deltas may be formatted as HTML by calling delta.to_html. The rendered markup will be generated based on formatting rules configured for the RichText module.

Inline formats

Inline formatting rules are used to build tags for the flow of content elements.

# Config:
RichText.configure do |c|
  c.html_default_block_format = 'p'
  c.html_inline_formats = {
    bold:        { tag: 'strong' },
    italic:      { tag: 'em' },
    br:          { tag: 'br' },
    link:        { tag: 'a', apply: ->(el, op, ctx){ el[:href] = op.attributes[:link] } }
  }
end

# Delta:
[
  { insert: "a man," },
  { insert: "\n", attributes: { br: true } },
  { insert: "a plan", attributes: { bold: true, italic: true } },
  { insert: "\n" },
  { insert: "panama\n", attributes: { link: 'https://visitpanama.com' } }
]

# HTML result:
%(
  <p>a man,<br><strong><em>a plan</em></strong></p>
  <p><a href="https://visitpanama.com">panama</a></p>
)

Each newline ("\n") character denotes a block separation, at which time the inline flow will be wrapped in a block tag specified by html_default_block_format. An inline element's block wrapper maybe customized with the block_format setting, or omitted with the omit_block setting. For soft or visible line breaks such as br or hr tags, you may assign them inline formats to render them as content flow.

# Config:
RichText.configure do |c|
  c.html_default_block_format = 'p'
  c.html_inline_formats = {
    hr:    { tag: 'hr', omit_block: true },
    code:  { tag: 'code', block_format: 'div' }
  }
end

# Delta:
[
  { insert: "sample code" },
  { insert: "\n", attributes: { hr: true } },
  { insert: "published = true", attributes: { code: true } },
  { insert: "\n" }
]

# HTML result:
%(
  <p>sample code</p>
  <hr>
  <div><code>published = true</code></div>
)

Block formats

Block tags are wrapped around a flow of elements whenever a newline is encountered (unless it has an inline format). Block formats should always apply to newline ("\n") inserts.

RichText.configure do |c|
  c.html_block_formats = {
    firstheader: { tag: 'h1' },
    bullet:      { tag: 'li', parent: 'ul' },
    id:          { apply: ->(el, op, ctx){ el[:id] = op.attributes[:id] } }
  }
end

# Delta:
[
  { insert: "Blocks are fun" },
  { insert: "\n", attributes: { firstheader: true, id: 'blockfun' } },
  { insert: "item 1" },
  { insert: "\n", attributes: { bullet: true } },
  { insert: "item 2" },
  { insert: "\n", attributes: { bullet: true } }
]

# HTML result:
%(
  <h1 id="blockfun">Blocks are fun</h1>
  <ul>
    <li>item 1</li>
    <li>item 2</li>
  </ul>
)

Block tags may define a parent tag, or an array of parents. When a block has a parent, its full parent tree is constructed and/or merged with a compatible node tree that preceeds it.

Formatting lambdas

Use tag and apply lambdas to customize tag structures.

# Config:
RichText.configure do |c|
  c.html_default_block_format = 'p'
  c.html_inline_formats = {
    image: {
      omit_block: true,
      tag: ->(el, op, ctx){
        el.name = 'figure'
        el.add_child(%(<img src="#{ op.value[:image][:src] }">))
        el.add_child(%(<figcaption>#{ op.value[:image][:caption] }</figcaption>))
        el
      }
    },
    link: {
      tag: 'a',
      apply: ->(el, op, ctx){ el[:href] = op.attributes[:link] }
    }
  }
end

# Delta:
[
  { insert: { image: { src: 'https://placekitten.com/100/100', caption: 'cute' } } },
  { insert: "\n" },
  { insert: "more kittens", attributes: { link: 'https://placekitten.com' } },
  { insert: "\n" }
]

# HTML result:
%(
  <figure>
    <img src="https://placekitten.com/100/100">
    <figcaption>cute</figcaption>
  </figure>
  <p><a href="https://placekitten.com">more kittens</a></p>
)

A tag lambda is called once when an element is created. The tag lambda returns a customized node structure, or nil to render nothing. An apply lambda is called for each formatting rule applied to an element. An apply lambda does not return a value.

Both tag and apply receive the same arguments:

el: the Nokogiri::XML::Node instance being rendered. For tag lambdas, this will be a new span.
op: the RichText::Op instance being rendered. You may references its attributes and value.
ctx: an optional context object passed via delta.to_html(context: obj). Providing a render context allows data to be shared across all formatting functions.

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