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+# Authors: Felix Wiemann
+# Contact: Felix_Wiemann@ososo.de
+# Revision: $Revision$
+# Date: $Date$
+# Copyright: This module has been placed in the public domain.
+
+"""
+Auxiliary transforms mainly to be used by Writer components.
+
+This module is called "writer_aux" because otherwise there would be
+conflicting imports like this one::
+
+    from docutils import writers
+    from docutils.transforms import writers
+"""
+
+__docformat__ = 'reStructuredText'
+
+from docutils import nodes, utils
+from docutils.transforms import Transform
+
+
+class Compound(Transform):
+
+    """
+    Flatten all compound paragraphs.  For example, transform ::
+
+        <compound>
+            <paragraph>
+            <literal_block>
+            <paragraph>
+
+    into ::
+
+        <paragraph>
+        <literal_block classes="continued">
+        <paragraph classes="continued">
+    """
+
+    default_priority = 810
+
+    def apply(self):
+        for compound in self.document.traverse(nodes.compound):
+            first_child = 1
+            for child in compound:
+                if first_child:
+                    if not isinstance(child, nodes.Invisible):
+                        first_child = 0
+                else:
+                    child['classes'].append('continued')
+            # Substitute children for compound.
+            compound.replace_self(compound[:])