Hi,

I have a number of documents that use a Word feature I haven't seen before: a "style separator". These characters are being treated as an ordinary end of paragraph marker in Aspose. I was wondering if there is any way to detect the symbol in order to adapt the behaviour of my program. I.e. a style separator is an end of paragraph marker that does not cause the rendering to continue on a new line, but rather, to continue immediately after the previous paragraph.

See attached Word doc.

Regards,
Mark..

Hi

 

Thanks for your inquiry. In your case, Paragraph break mark is hidden that is why there is no line break. You can generate the similar document using code like the following:

 

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder();

// insert a paragraph with hidden paragraph end.

builder.CurrentParagraph.ParagraphBreakFont.Hidden = true;

builder.Writeln("Test");

builder.CurrentParagraph.ParagraphBreakFont.Hidden = false;

builder.Write("This is another paragraph");

// Save output

builder.Document.Save(@"Test001\out.doc");

 

But in this case, there is no line break only if “Show/Hide” option is disabled. This is because internally there are two options “Hidden” and “SpecialHidden”. In your document, both these options are set. But programmatically, you can set only the first.

 

Best regards,

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Alexey Noskov
Developer/Technical Support
Aspose Auckland Team

That's great, thanks! That solved the immediate problem. Any chance of "Special hidden" being able to be set in the future? Our clients might get confused if the document looks different when they toggle "show hidden characters".. Regards, Mark.

Hi

 

Thanks for your request. We will consider exposing this attribute in one of future versions. Your request has been linked to the appropriate issue. You will be notified as soon as it is resolved.

 

Best regards.

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Alexey Noskov
Developer/Technical Support
Aspose Auckland Team