Line breaks in ability description?

[EightBitz]

I created and am adapting a new system from the skeleton files. I'm working on the thing_abilities.dat file, and I'd like to add line breaks to the description. The sample abilities in the skeleton file gives me enough to do this:

  <thing
    id="abAnFr"
    name="Animal Friendship"
    compset="GoodTrait"
    isunique="yes"
    description="How do I break this into multiple lines?">
    </thing>

What I want to do with the description is something like this:

Type: Minor Trait
Cost: 1 character point

Description: This trait allows you to more easily make friends with animals.

Effect: Presence +2 when dealing with animals.

But I haven't been able to figure out how to add line breaks. Can anyone help?

Thank you.

 

[EightBitz]

Nevermind. I finally found the answer here:

http://docs.fusioncharts.com/charts/contents/?TTip_Lines.html

{br} inserts a line break.

  <thing
    id="abAnFr"
    name="Animal Friendship"
    compset="GoodTrait"
    isunique="yes"
    description="This is on line1.{br}This is on line 2.">
    </thing>

 

[Mathias]

Here's the relevant page in the authoring kit wiki, in case you need to look up any related questions: http://hlkitwiki.wolflair.com/index.php5/Encoded_Text

 

[EightBitz]

Mathias,

Other XML guys I'm talking to are saying that this sort of encoding isn't standard XML, and moreover, it's specific to Hero Lab. I'd be inclined to believe them, except that the site where I originally found my answer had nothing to do with Hero Lab (which you can obviously see).

So, I'm curious as to the origin of this type of text encoding.

 

[Mathias]

Yes, Hero Lab has its own encoding for text. I'd guess it's based on similar things that are used elsewhere, which is why the same answer is correct in other places.