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barrym

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Carriage-return or line-feed in an element name?
« on: March 29, 2007, 07:57:11 am »
Is there any way to force a carriage-return or a line-feed within the name of an element?  

Often it improves readability of a diagram to force parts of a name (on a flow, or in an activity, etc.) to start on a new line.  Simply resizing does not satisfy the need.  This would also be extremely useful in link names and guard conditions.

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Re: Carriage-return or line-feed in an element nam
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2007, 01:01:58 pm »
There is a way to force it.

Type the text you want into a text exitor and copy it to the clipboard.
Select the element on a diagram.
Press F2 and paste the text.

I just did this for a class and it draws correctly on the diagram, but anywhere else that the name is drawn it doesn't render correctly.