From 95795a20c25bd9a1e6c5c74b52c953d1476807e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: 01zulfi <85733202+01zulfi@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:56:21 +0500
Subject: [PATCH] core: fix leading spaces in txt export && remove unneeded
 space at start of txt Signed-off-by: 01zulfi
 <85733202+01zulfi@users.noreply.github.com>

---
 .../__snapshots__/tiptap.test.js.snap          | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 .../src/content-types/__tests__/tiptap.test.js |  3 ++-
 packages/core/src/content-types/tiptap.ts      | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 packages/core/src/utils/templates/text.ts      |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/core/src/content-types/__tests__/__snapshots__/tiptap.test.js.snap b/packages/core/src/content-types/__tests__/__snapshots__/tiptap.test.js.snap
index e14cd7c98..1868c856a 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/content-types/__tests__/__snapshots__/tiptap.test.js.snap
+++ b/packages/core/src/content-types/__tests__/__snapshots__/tiptap.test.js.snap
@@ -126,6 +126,16 @@ But this post was supposed to be about the "Secrets" of Typescript Generics, rig
 "
 `;
 
+exports[`convert HTML to markdown with leadingWhitespaces > html-to-md-leadingWhitespaces.md 1`] = `
+"two spaces
+
+four spaces  
+two spaces  
+four spaces
+
+"
+`;
+
 exports[`convert HTML to markdown with outlinelists > html-to-md-outlinelists.md 1`] = `
 "Testing outline list:
 
@@ -389,6 +399,14 @@ right? Well, let's get into that.
 4. TYPE INFERENCE USING INTERFACE PROPERTIES"
 `;
 
+exports[`convert HTML to text with leadingWhitespaces > html-to-txt-leadingWhitespaces.txt 1`] = `
+"  two spaces
+
+    four spaces
+  two spaces
+    four spaces"
+`;
+
 exports[`convert HTML to text with outlinelists > html-to-txt-outlinelists.txt 1`] = `
 "Testing outline list:
  * My outline list
diff --git a/packages/core/src/content-types/__tests__/tiptap.test.js b/packages/core/src/content-types/__tests__/tiptap.test.js
index d718e9001..dbad0d149 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/content-types/__tests__/tiptap.test.js
+++ b/packages/core/src/content-types/__tests__/tiptap.test.js
@@ -65,7 +65,8 @@ const HTMLS = {
   tasklists: `<p>Hello</p><ul data-collapsed="false" class="checklist"><li class="checked checklist--item"><p>Task item 1</p></li><li class="checked checklist--item"><p>Task item 2</p></li><li class="checked checklist--item"><p>Task item 3</p></li><li class="checklist--item"><p>Task item 4</p><ul data-collapsed="false" class="checklist"><li class="checklist--item"><p>Sub task item 1</p></li><li class="checklist--item"><p>Sub task item 2</p></li></ul></li><li class="checklist--item"><p>Task Item 5</p></li></ul><p>Nene</p><ul><li><p>dasvsadv</p></li><li><p>adsva\`sd</p></li><li><p>vasd</p></li><li><p>vsadvdsa</p></li></ul>`,
   outlinelists: `<p >Testing outline list:</p><ul data-collapsed="false" data-type="outlineList"><li data-type="outlineListItem"><p >My outline list</p></li><li data-type="outlineListItem"><p >works</p></li><li data-type="outlineListItem"><p >but sometimes</p><ul data-collapsed="false" data-type="outlineList"><li data-type="outlineListItem"><p >It doesn't</p></li><li data-type="outlineListItem"><p >what do I do?</p></li><li data-type="outlineListItem"><p >I need to do something!</p></li></ul></li><li data-type="outlineListItem"><p >Makes no sense!</p></li><li data-type="outlineListItem"><p >Yes it doesn't!</p></li></ul>`,
   codeblock2: `<pre>hello<br></pre>`,
-  singleSpacedParagraphs: `<p data-spacing="single">hello world</p><p data-spacing="single">hello world 2</p>`
+  singleSpacedParagraphs: `<p data-spacing="single">hello world</p><p data-spacing="single">hello world 2</p>`,
+  leadingWhitespaces: `<p data-spacing="double">  two spaces</p><p data-spacing="double">    four spaces</p><p data-spacing="single">  two spaces</p><p data-spacing="single">    four spaces</p>`
 };
 
 for (const html in HTMLS) {
diff --git a/packages/core/src/content-types/tiptap.ts b/packages/core/src/content-types/tiptap.ts
index 76d1f8bff..7660e7d0e 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/content-types/tiptap.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/content-types/tiptap.ts
@@ -413,6 +413,22 @@ function convertHtmlToTxt(html: string, wrap = true) {
           builder.openBlock({
             leadingLineBreaks: dataSpacing == "single" ? 1 : 2
           });
+
+          // convert leading whitespace to NO-BREAK SPACE
+          if (elem.children && elem.children.length > 0) {
+            const firstChild = elem.children[0];
+            if (firstChild.type === "text" && firstChild.data) {
+              firstChild.data = firstChild.data.replace(
+                /^([ \t]+)/,
+                (match) => {
+                  return match
+                    .replace(/ /g, "\u00A0")
+                    .replace(/\t/g, "\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0");
+                }
+              );
+            }
+          }
+
           walk(elem.children, builder);
           builder.closeBlock({
             trailingLineBreaks: 1
diff --git a/packages/core/src/utils/templates/text.ts b/packages/core/src/utils/templates/text.ts
index 0ba100bd1..183bf1068 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/utils/templates/text.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/utils/templates/text.ts
@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@ import { TemplateData } from "./index.js";
 export function buildText(data: TemplateData) {
   return `${data.title}
 
-  ${data.content}`;
+${data.content}`;
 }