Hi, I was adding AutoYast support to the registration module and found a nice improvement for creating RichText messages. The current approach is using the Summary module, so for displaying the overview of the current AutoYast configuration I used code like this: summary = "" summary = Summary.AddHeader(summary, _("Registration Settings")) summary = Summary.OpenList(summary) summary = Summary.AddListItem(summary, _("Email: %s") % @config.email) summary = Summary.CloseList(summary) This does not look nice. Then I realized that RichText content is actually an HTML subset. And for rendering HTML Ruby has a native support: ERB templates. They are used in Ruby on Rails for rendering web pages so it should work for Yast RichText as well. I found out that it is actually very easy to use ERB, just create the summary using ERB template like for any other RoR application: summary.erb: <h3><%= _("Registration Settings") %></h3> <ul> <li><%= _("Email: %s") % h(@config.email) %></li> </ul> This looks much better! (Notice the h() method for escaping <>& characters in the value!) Then simply render it when needed: erb = ERB.new(File.read("summary.erb")) # render the ERB template in the context of the current object # i.e. the @config attribute is accessible for the ERB renderer summary = erb.result(binding) And that's it! I have added support for *.erb files in the latest y2makepot so even the translatable strings from *.erb files are correctly extracted to POT files. Note: real code needs a small trick with specifying the textdomain for y2makepot, see the full change in yast2-registration [1]. Enjoy! [1] https://github.com/yast/yast-registration/pull/30/files -- Ladislav Slezák Appliance department / YaST Developer Lihovarská 1060/12 190 00 Prague 9 / Czech Republic tel: +420 284 028 960 lslezak@suse.com SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org