Procedure to insert linebreak

[IanMayo]

Document authors frequently use line-breaks to format content.

An example of this is in table headers, where the authors wish the line break to occur in a specific place.

The DITA solution to this is the <?linebreak?> processing instruction. The DITA-OT html transform converts this PI into <br/>.

I'm used to doing this in Text mode in OxygenXML, but we need an easy way to do this in Author mode. I then need to document it in the FieldMan user guide.

It would be useful if we could register this snippet in OxygenXML, for easy insertion. One day we may choose to wrap that as a plugin, but for now the manual steps to do it would be fine.

[frank-zimmermann]

I was not able to push a branch, but I can describe it here.

You can navigate to the Preferences > Code Templates and create a new code template, like in the following screenshot:

In my case, I also added a shortcut (Shift+Return).

After applying this (we can save this as a Project Option), the editor can now insert the <?linebreak?> PI by pressing Shift+Return, or, by pressing Ctrl+Space:

When start typing "line...", the code snippet is also shown.

I think by documenting how to use the shortcut helps a lot.

[IanMayo]

This is great, thanks.