[oXygen-user] Line breaks in DITA source

[KAATMAN Matthew]

Hey Guys,

How does Oxygen decide where to add line breaks in the source?

I've got a strange situation where I'll have some content like: (Note the literal space between </i> and <tm)
<i>Stenotrophomonas maltophilia</i> <tm tmtype="tm"><tm tmtype="reg" translate="no">ATCC</tm> 17666</tm>

Oxygen often formats it like: (Note the lack of a space after </i>)
<i>Stenotrophomonas maltophilia</i>
<tab><tab><tab><tab><tm tmtype="tm"><tm tmtype="reg" translate="no">ATCC</tm> 17666</tm>

So far so good. Rendering this to PDF produces a space between the </i> and <tm.

However, when we send these files to our translation vendor (they're using Trados), the content comes back as: (Note lack of space)
<i>Stenotrophomonas maltophilia</i><tm tmtype="tm"><tm tmtype="reg" translate="no">ATCC</tm> 17666</tm>

One solution (and maybe the best one!) would be for the translation vendor  to preserve whitespace. However, I was curious if there was a way to set rules that define how Oxygen saves the file. 

If so, another thing I'd probably do is never break a tag across lines. I see this fairly often too. Which 99.99% of the time is no problem, but we've run into some issues due to complexity we've introduced.

<uicontrol
>Test</uicontrol>

Thanks!
Matt

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