This patch against PyTextile 2.0.8 prevents textile from adding a newline to the first line of a pre-block.

--- textile.py~ 2004-06-25 13:24:09.000000000 +0200
+++ textile.py  2004-09-03 14:00:53.000000000 +0200
@@ -1239,7 +1239,7 @@
         attributes = self.parse_params(parameters, clear)
 
         # Build the tag.
-        open_tag = self.build_open_tag('pre', attributes) + '\n'
+        open_tag = self.build_open_tag('pre', attributes)
         close_tag = '\n</pre>'
 
         # Replace < and >.

This patch allows for metadata entries in .txtl files.

Example metadata:

title
#metakey metavalue
entry body text

The patch looks like this:

--- pyblosxom/contrib/entryparsers/txtl.py~     2004-05-19 11:51:35.000000000 +0200
+++ pyblosxom/contrib/entryparsers/txtl.py      2004-08-16 17:51:49.000000000 +0200
@@ -190,11 +190,22 @@
 
 def readfile(filename, request):
     entryData = {}
-    d = open(filename).read()
+    d = open(filename).readlines()
 
-    # Grab title and body.
-    title = d.split('\n')[0]
-    body  = d[len(title):]
+    # Grab title
+    entryData['title'] = d.pop(0).strip()
+
+    # this handles properties of the entry that are between
+    # the title and the body and start with a #
+    import re
+    while len(d) > 0:
+        match = re.match(r'^#(\w+)\s+(.*)', d[0])
+        if match:
+            d.pop(0)
+            entryData[match.groups()[0]] = match.groups()[1].strip()
+        else:
+            break
+    body = "\n" + ''.join(d)
 
     # Grab textile configuration.
     config = request.getConfiguration()
@@ -205,8 +216,7 @@
     
     body = textile(body, head_offset=head_offset, validate=validate, output=output, encoding=encoding)
 
-    entryData = {'title': title,
-                 'body': body}
+    entryData['body'] = body
 
     # Call the postformat callbacks
     tools.run_callback('postformat',

The code is based on the standard pyblosxom entry parser for .txt-files.