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Hello,

You can add a text (for example an empty text) with the font family and size you want to apply immediately before adding the soft break.

Please note that MS Word ignores this specific case in most cases, so the best approach would be adding a paragraph (hard) break with the styles (font family, font size, spacing...) you want to use instead of a soft break.

Regards.

Okay it would be great if you could provide an example for both adding text with the font family and size you want to apply immediately before adding the soft break and also for adding a paragraph (hard) with the styles (font family, font size, spacing...) 

Hello,

Please check the samples included in the package, that illustrate how to use all methods available in phpdocx. You need to use the addText method with the styles you want to apply.

For example, to add an empty paragraph with custom spacing, font family, and font size styles:

$docx->addText('Content 1', array('spacingBottom' => 0));
$docx->addText('', array('fontSize' => 6, 'font' => 'Arial', 'spacingBottom' => 4, 'spacingTop' => 4));
$docx->addText('Content 2');

Or to add a specific text style before a soft break:

$breakFragment = new WordFragment($docx);
$breakFragment->addBreak();

$runs = array();
$runs[] = array('text' => 'Content 1');
$runs[] = array('text' => ' ', 'fontSize' => 6, 'font' => 'Arial');
$runs[] = $breakFragment;
$runs[] = array('text' => 'Content 2');

$docx->addText($runs);

Regards.

$docx->addText('', array('fontSize' => 6, 'font' => 'Arial', 'spacingBottom' => 4, 'spacingTop' => 4)); is not working as expected. 

$breakFragment = new WordFragment($docx);
$breakFragment->addBreak();

$runs = array();
$runs[] = array('text' => 'Content 1');
$runs[] = array('text' => ' ', 'fontSize' => 6, 'font' => 'Arial');
$runs[] = $breakFragment;
$runs[] = array('text' => 'Content 2');

$docx->addText($runs);
Also adds Microsoft Sanserif 11 font size. So how to reduce this size?

Hello,

You can also set the styles before and after the break:

$runs = array();
$runs[] = array('text' => 'Content 1');
$runs[] = array('text' => ' ', 'fontSize' => 6, 'font' => 'Arial');
$runs[] = $breakFragment;
$runs[] = array('text' => ' ', 'fontSize' => 6, 'font' => 'Arial');
$runs[] = array('text' => 'Content 2');

$docx->addText($runs);

Also please note as explained in a previous reply:

You can add a text (for example an empty text) with the font family and size you want to apply immediately before adding the soft break.

Please note that MS Word ignores this specific case in most cases

You can check the same if you generate the DOCX manually using MS Word. MS Word includes some default behaviors that can't be changed.

There's no other approach than the detailed ones from our previous reply to handle break styles and spacings.

Regards.

Okay. When I use \n with instead of break it works with the replaceVariableByText() method. For whne there is a bold tag in the sentence we use below code
 

$docx = new CreateDocx();

    $wf = new WordFragment($docx);
 

 $text[] = array(

                    'text' => $partialInputExploded[$i],

                    'bold' => true,

                    'fontSize' => 5.5,

                    'font' => 'Arial',

                );
$wf->addText($text, array('font' => 'Arial', 'fontSize' => 7)); and then use replaceVariableByWordFragment(array($placeHolderName => $fomattedWordFragment), array('type' => 'inline')); So for this we \n add the sentence to new line but \n remains same in the generated output

Hello,

To replace the supported line breaks:

'\n\r', '\r\n', '\n', '\r', "\n\r", "\r\n", "\n", "\r"

when adding contents in the supported methods, you need to enable the parseLineBreaks option (the default value of this option is false). This option replaces the line breaks with <w:br/> tags in the document.

Regards.

Okay. So how to handle when text has both <b></b> tags and <br>? This means if it has bold text should be bold and the <br> tag is present then need to add a statement after the <br> tag to the new line. 

Hello,

You can add line breaks and styles when adding text content (the same approach can be used with WordFragments):

$text = "A text with styles and \nbreaks \nand more contents.";
$paragraphOptions = array(
    'bold' => true,
    'font' => 'Arial',
    'parseLineBreaks' => true,
);
$docx->addText($text, $paragraphOptions);

The sample Contents/addText/sample_6.php included in the package illustrates a similar code using parseLineBreaks and parseTabs options.

The parseLineBreaks option is available in many methods: https://www.phpdocx.com/documentation/api-documentation

HTML can also be used to add content with styles and line breaks.

Regards.