Using lists in prawn

Question

Im using prawn to create pdfs that contain much data in table format and some lists. The problem with the lists is that Im just using text as lists because there is no semantic

Answer 1

I think a better approach is pre-processing the HTML string using Nokogiri, leaving only basics tags that Prawn could manage with "inline_format" option, as in this code:

def self.render_html_text(instr)
   # Replacing 
 tag
   outstr = instr.gsub('
',"\n")
   outstr.gsub!('
',"\n")
   # Replacing 
 & 
 tags
   doc = Nokogiri::HTML(outstr)
   doc.search('//ul').each do |ul|
     content = Nokogiri::HTML(ul.inner_html).xpath('//li').map{|n| "• #{n.inner_html}\n"}.join
     ul.replace(content)
   end
   #removing some  tags inserted by Nokogiri
   doc.at_xpath('//body').inner_html
end