I’m trying to add content as follows:
{{ if isset .Params "journal" }}<i>{{- .Params.journal -}}</i>{{ end }}
{{ if isset .Params "booktitle" }}<i>{{- .Params.booktitle -}}</i>{{ end }}
{{ if isset .Params "volume" }}{{- .Params.volume -}}{{ end }}
{{ if isset .Params "issue" }}({{- .Params.issue -}}){{ end }}
The rendered version adds whitespace if the isset is evaluated to false. Is there any way I can avoid this?
See:
it is probably intuitive for many but it was not for me so if you want to avoid any whitespace character you should add dash to every part of the if-then close so {{- if … -}} and {{- end -}} should also have the dashes and to be sure if you have the long list of if-then clauses do that for the ones outlining too (or short: do it for every {{ if }}/{{ end }} you can find in your templates until it breaks ;))…
i tried to find a good source of the behavior of the dashes in templates with a lot of logical blocks but so far couldn’t find the good specification… most of the references are just mentioning the case in which the variable is in between the {{ brackets }}… for the time being before doing a proper set of tests i would stick to making my habit into {{- -}} instead of {{ }}…