Hello, The option "Preserve empty lines" and the other formatting options that imply preserving some whitespace characters are ignored because these characters are normalized when the XML document is rendered in Author mode and Author mode does not keep track of the whitespace characters that were removed by the normalization process. If you need to preserve them you can add the attribute xml:space="preserve" to the element that contains them. In the User Manual of the next version of Author we will document all the formatting options that are ignored in Author mode. Regards, Sorin infotexture wrote:

Hi,

I include empty lines in DITA files to improve the readability of the source code when viewed as text.

If I switch to Author mode & save, oXygen doesn’t honor the **Preserve empty lines** preference. The same happens with map files saved from the DITA Maps Manager.

I would expect the empty lines to remain, as I have specified the following settings: * Editor > Format > XML > Preserve empty lines = ON * Editor > Pages > Author > Format & indent when passing from author...=OFF

Have I misunderstood the settings, is there another flag I need to set, or is this a bug?

Regards,

Roger