Add a line break in text

[Gabriel Radic]

Hello,

Using the OmniGraffle Pro 4 trial on Tiger/PPC here.

How can one add a line break in a text block? I tried all the Cmd, Ctrl and Alt combinations without luck.

Thanks for your help.

[JKT]

Shift-return

[Gabriel Radic]

Shift+Return only ads a new paragraph, not a line break.

[Joel]

In Diagram View, it's simply Return, in the Outline View it's Option-Return.

[Gabriel Radic]

Hmm... Joel, I think you're talking about OmniOutliner.

There must be a way to do it in OmniGraffle too.

[JKT]

No, Joel means OmniGraffle Pro.
I've just tried it and return is adding a line break for me now (though, when I first replied, I'm fairly sure it didn't!). However, if you are using the Outline feature of OmniGraffle Pro (show the drawer and click the Outline tab) you need to use option-return to enter a line break when inputting text in the drawer.

[Gabriel Radic]

I just tried it too, and it adds a new paragraph, not a line break.

[JKT]

Doh, my bad. I don't think you can add just a line break. I've had a play in TextEdit and, without selecting an option from an Insert menu, I can't do it there either. I assume that TextEdit and OmniGraffle share the same text entry routine so it appears that OmniGraffle is lacking that option.

[JKT]

Note, if you use TextEdit to introduce a line break, it is preserved in OmniGraffle when you copy paste the text from TE to OmniGraffle so it does support using them, just not entering them.

[Christian Roth]

I'll cast my vote to bind Shift-Return to adding a line break instead of a new paragraph (as it does now). I just needed it myself and sorely miss that function.

Btw., does anyone know what the Unicode codepoint for that "character" is? One could then add it to the favorites in the Unicode character palette for easy insertion. I know there is such a character, I just can't find it anymore :(

-Christian

[Gabriel Radic]

Here is the only workaround I can thing of:

Use a scriptable launcher to insert the line-break character as text. I recommend Butler, but there are others.

You can assign a keyboard shortcut, and you're set. The good thing is that this works in many other cocoa apps. The bad thing is that it enters a paragraph break in Carbon apps. But the Carbon apps already have a shortcut for this. Just like all Cocoa apps besides OmniGraffle :-p

[Gabriel Radic]

BTW, the Unicode character you'll have to double click in the Characters palette to enter one in OmniGraffle, or to record it in Butler, is 2028.

The docs are here http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Strings/Articles/stringsParagraphs.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40005016-DontLinkElementID_4

[charanga]

To add a line break in text

control-return

is working for me.

[Omnifocuser]

How to add the line-break in the Topic?

For example, the "Book Draft" template has another line of text, but for some reason I just can't the command!

Please advise!

[whpalmer4]

How to add the line-break in the Topic?

For example, the "Book Draft" template has another line of text, but for some reason I just can't the command!

Please advise!

This is an OmniGraffle thread, not OmniOutliner, but the answer is the same: to put a new line in a block of text in the outline, use option-return.