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Creating a soft line break in Flare?
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:40 pm
by lbon42
I don't know if anyone else has experienced this, but why we can no longer make a soft break (Shift+Enter) in Flare? We could before, but now I get the <empty> message and in the text editor it shows the <br/>, which is correct, but we can't do a soft line break in the XML editor. Even if I manually enter the <br/> in the text editor I still get the <empty> message in the XML editor and have to remove it.
I really need to be able to do Soft Breaks, for both Screen Text and Tables.
We did just do a new stylesheet from scratch and we're using the print medium and I don't know if it has something to do with that or if it's something else.
Is there a setting or something in the css we're missing and if so, how do we resolve this?
Using Flare 2023 R2
Thank you!
Lou
Re: Creating a soft line break in Flare?
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:33 pm
by Matze
Hi, from my point of view I would not make line breaks. Better creating other methods such as paragraph styles.
Re: Creating a soft line break in Flare?
Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 7:34 pm
by Psider
Could you perhaps have the "Show Tags" button turned on and one of the settings causes the br to show as <empty>? Something to check, anyway.
Here's the relevant help page:
https://help.madcapsoftware.com/flare20 ... opofEditor
Search for "XML tags surrounding" to jump from the bookmark to the relevant button description.
Re: Creating a soft line break in Flare?
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:55 am
by lbon42
Thank you both - I will tell the author to give it a try.
She needs to use soft breaks, not P Tags due the spacing - this is for screen text input/output, so she doesn't want the large space in between lines, but for regular content the spacing must remain as is with regular P tags.
Thank you!
Re: Creating a soft line break in Flare?
Posted: Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:26 am
by ChoccieMuffin
lbon42 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:55 am
Thank you both - I will tell the author to give it a try.
She needs to use soft breaks, not P Tags due the spacing - this is for screen text input/output, so she doesn't want the large space in between lines, but for regular content the spacing must remain as is with regular P tags.
Thank you!
I suggest you add a p class to your stylesheet that she can use for screen input, and have the space between lines be as you need it for that class, rather than using Shift-Return to insert linefeeds.