Affinity Designer - Line break in text?

[Denny]

On the Mac and many iPadOS apps Shift+Return yields a line break in text but that doesn’t seem to work in Designer. Is there a way to do this?

[AllAppsUser]

Given no one else has pitched-in here....

You're using a keyboard with the iPad? That immediately puts this outside my experience I'm afraid.

However... I'm not aware Designer allows line breaks like that. Does a copy-paste a forced line-break from Pages work?

I assume you can't simply make the width of the container smaller, becuase there are other lines within the block that break nicely? Are you breaking because there's a hypen issue? If so, would addressing the hyphen instead be a ploy to explore?

Hope this is helpful.

[DM1]

On 6/14/2021 at 8:32 AM, Denny said:

Is there a way to do this?

I don’t have a keyboard but using the screen keyboard: I find that if you add a space after a full stop then tap return
you get a line break. (As shown here). 
If you don’t add a space after the full stop, when you tap return you get a paragraph break.

I haven’t tried with all characters but it seems to only work with full stop
(you can go back and remove the full stop from the end of the line as I did with this paragraph).
 

 

[AllAppsUser]

18 hours ago, DM1 said:

if you add a space after a full stop. 
you get a line break

What odd behaviour... How do you create a paragraph with more than one sentence simply flowing in a normal way then, I wonder?

[DM1]

4 hours ago, ProDesigner said:

How do you create a paragraph with more than one sentence simply flowing in a normal way then, I wonder?

Sorry, I meant to imply that these steps preceded a CR (return key tap). On rereading I can see how this might not be clear so I have edited my post accordingly 🙂. 
The point of the post was to show that a full stop followed by a return behaves differently to a full stop followed by a space followed by a return. The first is a paragraph break the latter a line break. Hopefully this helps the OP who was seeking a way to add a line break.

[hfw]

Absolutely brilliant! How did you ever figure this out??

On 6/14/2021 at 7:06 PM, DM1 said:

I don’t have a keyboard but using the screen keyboard: I find that if you add a space after a full stop then tap return
you get a line break. (As shown here). 
If you don’t add a space after the full stop, when you tap return you get a paragraph break.

I haven’t tried with all characters but it seems to only work with full stop
(you can go back and remove the full stop from the end of the line as I did with this paragraph).