Typinator is a powerful text expansion tool that allows users to create custom abbreviations for frequently used phrases, paragraphs, or other text snippets. Line breaks are often necessary to format text properly, especially when creating templates or expanding snippets. Depending on the app where the abbreviation is expanded, line breaks can be interpreted in different ways. Therefore, Typinator offers diverse options to create a line break.
To easily visualize line breaks in Typinator, please activate the Paragraph Icon in the editor view.
Simple line break
Simply pressing the Return or Enter key will insert a line break in Typinator. This is the most basic way to create a line break. Some apps need two line breaks to visualize a simple line break correctly.
Insert line break as key {return}
Typinator supports an option to insert keys via the menu. If you press enter in this view you will get a '{return}' in the expansion editor. Sometimes applications interpret this differently from using a simple enter.
Shift + Enter to create a soft break
Typinator allows you to insert a soft line break by pressing Shift + Enter. These key combination inserts a soft line break character directly into your expansion. It will depend on the application if it can interpret this correctly as a soft line break.
Option + Enter creates a non-expanding line break
Sometimes it is useful to add a line break in your expansion in Typinator to make the expansion easier edit in Typinator, but you don't want to have the line break in your expansion. Then you can use a non-expanding line break. You can trigger this with Option + Enter, or you can find it in the {...} menu as last menu item.