From 05ccd5c348394e8380bf8cc451160d69916fb3b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:22:55 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Render plain text comments in book file metadata as HTML

---
 src/pyj/book_list/book_details.pyj | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/pyj/book_list/book_details.pyj b/src/pyj/book_list/book_details.pyj
index 74eb559b7a..f9ede2ba8b 100644
--- a/src/pyj/book_list/book_details.pyj
+++ b/src/pyj/book_list/book_details.pyj
@@ -318,6 +318,9 @@ def render_metadata(mi, table, book_id, iframe_css):  # {{{
                     add_row(name, val)
                     return
                 val = E.span(val).outerHTML
+            else:
+                if field is 'comments' and '<' not in val:
+                    val = '\n'.join(['<p class="description">{}</p>'.format(x.pyreplace('\n', '<br>')) for x in val.split('\n\n')])
             if hp is 'side':
                 add_row(name, val, is_html=True)
                 return