Line breaks are missing in LibreOffice Writer

[leovin]

Hello,

Line breaks are missing in LibreOffice Writer (v6.1.6.3, Ubuntu) but show up in online viewer (for example https://onlinedocumentviewer.com).

Steps to reproduce:

1. Modify test '25 Adds line breaks by default' (

   docx-templates/packages/docx-templates/src/__tests__/indexNode.test.js

   Line 465 in 4c007ad

   it('25 Adds line breaks by default', async () => {

   ) to output document.
2. Open created document in latest LibreOffice Writer.

Expected result:
According to test template, there should be two line breaks starting with words 'Nullam' and 'Morbi'.

Actual:
Line breaks are missing.

[guigrpa]

I'm afraid this library only targets MS Word. Sorry about that!

[emilong]

(in case anyone read this before, I've edited it to update with a better technique)

I found a workaround that seems to work in LibreOffice and FreeOffice TextMaker:

const literalXmlDelimiter = "||";
const preserveWhitespace = string =>
  string
    .split(/[\n\r]+/) // could use different split criteria here
    .map(
      para =>
        `${literalXmlDelimiter}</w:t><w:br/>${literalXmlDelimiter}${para}${literalXmlDelimiter}<w:t>${literalXmlDelimiter}`
    )
    .join("");

In other words, make sure to terminate the preceding <w:t> that has come before the text was injected, do a <w:br/>, then resume the <w:t>.

If anyone else finds this helpful, I can make a PR... lmk!