From 84e691b90aa6f323379314a8ff2c1c855ba3b4d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fedor <fedor@mail.ru>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 21:12:38 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Bug 1154295 - use normal formatting for plaintext documents
 in reader mode.

---
 toolkit/components/reader/ReaderMode.jsm | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+)

diff --git a/toolkit/components/reader/ReaderMode.jsm b/toolkit/components/reader/ReaderMode.jsm
index d9889e19e..a1d2c5643 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/reader/ReaderMode.jsm
+++ b/toolkit/components/reader/ReaderMode.jsm
@@ -346,6 +346,11 @@ this.ReaderMode = {
       pathBase: Services.io.newURI(".", null, doc.baseURIObject).spec
     };
 
+    // convert text/plain document, if any, to XHTML format
+    if (this._isDocumentPlainText(doc)) {
+      doc = this._convertPlainTextDocument(doc);
+    }
+
     let langAttributes = {
       charset: doc.characterSet,
       lang: doc.documentElement.lang
@@ -540,6 +545,43 @@ this.ReaderMode = {
 
     return readingSpeed.get(lang) || readingSpeed.get("en");
   },
+
+  /**
+   *
+   * Check if the document to be parsed is text document.
+   * @param doc the doc object to be parsed.
+   * @return boolean
+   *
+   */
+  _isDocumentPlainText(doc) {
+    return doc.contentType == "text/plain";
+  },
+
+  /**
+   *
+   * The document to be parsed is text document and is converted to HTML format.
+   * @param doc the doc object to be parsed.
+   * @return doc
+   *
+   */
+  _convertPlainTextDocument(doc) {
+    let preTag = doc.querySelector("pre");
+    let docFrag = doc.createDocumentFragment();
+    let content = preTag.textContent;
+    let paragraphs = content.split(/\r?\n\r?\n/);
+    for (let para of paragraphs) {
+      let pElem = doc.createElement("p");
+      let lines = para.split(/\n/);
+      for (let line of lines) {
+        pElem.append(line);
+        let brElem = doc.createElement("br");
+        pElem.append(brElem);
+      }
+      docFrag.append(pElem);
+    }
+    preTag.parentNode.replaceChild(docFrag, preTag);
+    return doc;
+  },
 };
 
 // Don't try to parse the page if it has too many elements (for memory and