Soft return gives hard return only

[John_Cole]

Holding down the shift key, then hitting the return key usually places a soft return on a Mac.

Soft returns are nice to use whenever a line of text needs to drop, maintaining the overall paragraph styles of the previous lines.

[Pauls]

Thanks for reporting this - something going wrong with keystroke handling there

[mac_heibu]

This works fine, if you use CTRL+Return. Just as shown under menu „Text/Insert/Line Break“.

[Wim Daniels]

You can adjust it in Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts. Look for 'Insert > Line Break'.

[fde101]

It seems to be Control+Return in Scrivener too...  I'm seeing indications that some Mac software might use Command+Option+Return for this so it may not be consistent across apps.  I don't see it listed in Apple's Human Interface Guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/user-interaction/keyboard/

 

[Fixx]

Shift-Return is the mac customary soft return.

[padura]

on my mac I use ctrl+return...

[rjvela82]

In latest build seems like Shift Return does Paragraph break. Ctrl Return does Line break. 

[BeeDee]

Agree with shift-return for soft return. (20 years in print and publishing. Hard to break a couple of decades of habit instilled by Quark and the other evil empire.)