Hi Kay... As far as I know, only "forced returns" (aka "SHIFT+ENTER") can be preserved .. all "normal" returns ("ENTER") must be converted to forced returns to round trip. I assume you're wanting this for code samples that are pasted in to a codeblock? The next version of DITA-FMx will provide a command that allows this to happen in a friendly manner so you don't have to manually replace all returns with forced returns.
You can do a search/replace to clean this up (if you're careful) .. 1) Select the codeblock 2) Ctrl+F 3) Enter \p as the text to find 4) Enter \r as the text to replace 5) Select "look in" Selection 6) Change All Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Kay Whatley at Bright Path wrote: > > Hello Framers: > > I am trying to find some type of read/write rule available beyond: > > element "codeblock" { > preserve line breaks; > } > > Specifically, this particular project require the line breaks to be > preserved (using that rule), AND "returns" to be preserved (I can't find a > rule). > > The document is already authored and the authors used "return" inside > their > codeblocks. Now they want them to be preserved. These are dropped on the > way to XML (DITA). > > Hope I've described this clearly enough. > > This company is using Frame 8 and the DITA app. > > Any suggestions? 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