From 3faa7231bb10eaa22fa180c9ba4b5a5b8c8fdfb3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qua-non <akshayaurora@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 05:08:00 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Core: markup and text allow for blanks lines when using \n
 for empty lines should fix issue #619

---
 kivy/core/text/__init__.py | 2 ++
 kivy/core/text/markup.py   | 9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kivy/core/text/__init__.py b/kivy/core/text/__init__.py
index fc3155c67..90d869d67 100644
--- a/kivy/core/text/__init__.py
+++ b/kivy/core/text/__init__.py
@@ -287,6 +287,8 @@ class LabelBase(object):
 
                 # calculate the word width
                 ww, wh = 0, 0
+                if word == '':
+                    ww, wh = get_extents(' ')
                 for glyph in word:
                     gw, gh = cache[glyph]
                     ww += gw
diff --git a/kivy/core/text/markup.py b/kivy/core/text/markup.py
index 46e41ea35..092d89eda 100644
--- a/kivy/core/text/markup.py
+++ b/kivy/core/text/markup.py
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ class MarkupLabel(MarkupLabelBase):
 
         # verify that each glyph have size
         glyphs = list(set(word))
+        glyphs.append(' ')
         get_extents = self.get_extents
         for glyph in glyphs:
             if not glyph in cache:
@@ -219,7 +220,7 @@ class MarkupLabel(MarkupLabelBase):
         for part in re.split(r'( |\n)', word):
 
             if part == '':
-                continue
+                part = ' '
 
             if part == '\n':
                 # put a new line!
@@ -266,7 +267,7 @@ class MarkupLabel(MarkupLabelBase):
         y = 0
         w, h = self._size
         refs = self._refs
-        no_of_lines = len(self._lines)
+        txt_height = sum(line[1] for line in self._lines)
 
         for line in self._lines:
             lh = line[1]
@@ -283,9 +284,9 @@ class MarkupLabel(MarkupLabelBase):
             # vertical alignement
             if y == 0:
                 if av == 1:
-                    y = int((h - (lh*no_of_lines))/2)
+                    y = int((h - txt_height)/2)
                 elif av == 2:
-                    y = h - (lh*(no_of_lines))
+                    y = h - (txt_height)
 
 
             for pw, ph, part, options in line[2]: