Changing QTextBlock behavior for a QTextDocument

[lzrdkng]

The documentation says that a QTextDocument is compose of QTextBlock.
Every QTextBlock is determine by a sequence of characters ending by the special character \n.

But I can't seem to find how exactly it would be possible to change this behavior.
For instance, I would like to define a QTextBlock as "one or more consecutive lines of text, separated by one or more blank lines", just like Markdown paragraph.

Is there way to change the behavior of a QTextDocument so it produces QTextBlock the way I want?

[raven-worx]

@lzrdkng
you are talking about the toPlainText() method right?

A possibility is to traverse the QTextDocument yourself and generate the string (QTextBlock::text()) and insert your custom block separators.

Untested:

QString text;
QTextBlock block = textDoc->firstBlock();
while( block.isValid() )
{
     text.append( block.text() );
     text.append( MY_SEPARATOR_STRING );
     block = block.next();
}

[lzrdkng]

@raven-worx Thank for the idea! I'll dig into it!