[oXygen-user] Save in Author mode doesn’t preserve empty lines

[Sorin Ristache]

Hello,

The option "Preserve empty lines" and the other formatting options that 
imply preserving some whitespace characters are ignored because these 
characters are normalized when the XML document is rendered in Author 
mode and Author mode does not keep track of the whitespace characters 
that were removed by the normalization process. If you need to preserve 
them you can add the attribute xml:space="preserve" to the element that 
contains them.

In the User Manual of the next version of Author we will document all 
the formatting options that are ignored in Author mode.


Regards,
Sorin


infotexture wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I include empty lines in DITA files to improve the readability of the source 
> code when viewed as text.
> 
> If I switch to Author mode & save, oXygen doesn’t honor the **Preserve empty 
> lines** preference. The same happens with map files saved from the DITA Maps 
> Manager.
> 
> I would expect the empty lines to remain, as I have specified the following 
> settings:
> * Editor > Format > XML > Preserve empty lines = ON
> * Editor > Pages > Author > Format & indent when passing from author...=OFF
> 
> Have I misunderstood the settings, is there another flag I need to set, or 
> is this a bug?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Roger