Paragraphs in notes

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh]

Is there a way to force paragraph breaks in the Notes portion of Domain Classes?  It is mushing everything together when I generate documentation which is *not* an aid to readability.

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh]

OK, by just trying out various things, I did discover that < P > (without the spaces) would create a break, but the only way I found to get a space between paragraphs was to put in a period and another paragraph break.

[mark.myers]

Thomas,

I will mention this in case it becomes an issue for you when generating documentation - I'm not sure if you are generating RTF or HTML but I assume from the <p> that it is HTML; my comments apply to RTF (I haven't investigated HTML). I have just discovered what looks like a bug when generating RTF documents with an element notes field that contains a paragraph break, ie entered with a "return" in the standard way. If the {Element.Notes} field is contained in the "Child elements>" section (or a table) then you get either the tag itself or garbage but not the notes field. I will report this to Sparx and post the results here.

Regards,
Mark.

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh]

The bizarre part for me is that Notes in Domain Objects behave as I would expect them to, i.e. paragraph breaks and carriage returns are preserved as one would expect, but for Requirements, everything ends up getting mushed together unless one uses the < P >

Not intuitive.

[mark.myers]

I will report this to Sparx and post the results here.

My response from Sparx was:
This issue has been raised and a correction for it will be available in the release of build 817 - due out in the next couple of days.

There is still an issue with the third party software, in that Notes with multiple lines will render to Normal font - no format.  We won't be able to resolve this until the next build. So I suggest you keep to the standard font format for notes - for the next build.

I hope this is of help.

[«Midnight»]

So Mark,

Did it work in 817?

David

[mark.myers]

Yes it works in 817

[Thomas Mercer-Hursh]

I can also confirm that it works in 817 ... good thing I didn't add too many of those <P> tags because with the fix they were producing a lot of extra whitespace and so I now had to delete them.

FWIW, while this is an HTML appearing tag, I was generating RTF documentation.