Non-breaking (soft) return and iPad keyboard

What I did:
To go to new line:

  1. Type a ⇧⏎
  2. Type a ⌥⏎
  3. Type a ⌃⏎

What happened:

  1. a new paragraph is started
  2. a new paragraph is also started
  3. a standard context menu is opened

What I expected:
Keyboard function as described here:

Non-breaking (Soft) Return

By default when you hit return a new paragraph is started, leaving some additional space between the lines. To prevent a return from breaking the paragraph you can insert a so-called soft return.

On macOS and iPadOS you can do so by typing any of the following:

  • Type a ⇧⏎
  • Type a ⌥⏎
  • Type a _⌃⏎ _

Things that might be helpful to know (Agenda version, OS and model, etc):

  • Soft return has never worked on my iPad with the keyboard.
  • Point 3. also happens on the MacBook, but I can deactivate this in the macOS keyboard settings.
  • Agenda 20.0
  • iPadOS 18.2.1
  • iPad Pro 11“ 2.generation
  • Smart Keyboard Folio (MXNK2D/A)
  • QWERTZ - German
  • Standard keyboard settings
  • no known hardware problems

On my Mac, using alt-return ( ⌥⏎) works as a soft return, but perhaps it depends on the type of keyboard. I know some European keyboards do have different types of bindings.

I also heard from someone that it changed in the system recently. You might also try holding in shift, for example. CTRL-SHIFT-RETURN or other combinations.

We’ll try to look into it.

This combination does not work either.

It also works as expected on my MacBook.
The problem only exists on my iPad.

Thanks for the quick feedback.

Ah, right. I don’t think it was possible to add it on iPad, which is exactly why we added the keyboard bar button instead. Pretty sure we did try it, but could not get it to work with the iPad text system.

Ok, then these two highlighted words don’t belong there. This is currently only half the truth.

Agreed. Will remove that. Thanks!

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