Question

I would like to define strings in xml that look like this and are just put in a TextView:

1. this is my first paragraph. Where
   it is important that it is correctly
   aligned.

2. and this would be the second one
   which is aligned

If I just write:

 <string name="infoHelp">1. this is my first paragraph. Where\n    it is important that it is correctly\n   aligned.</string>

Where I insert whitespaces after \n they are trimmed. Would would be the best way to do this?

Please no html solution, I cannot use it in this case!

Thanks very much

EDITED from /n to \n

ADDED this layout file:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent"
         android:weightSum="10" android:orientation="horizontal">

....

        <TextView android:id="@+id/info_help" 
            android:layout_width="wrap_content" 
            android:layout_height="380sp"
            android:text ="@string/InfoHelp"
            android:layout_marginTop = "13sp"
            android:layout_marginLeft="12sp"
            android:layout_marginRight="12sp"
            android:textColor="#000000"
            android:textSize="13sp"
            android:layout_below="@+id/Info_title"
        >
            </TextView>

    </RelativeLayout>

and the strings file is just as I have shown. There is no chance I get any leading whitespaces from my strings file – I have tried to insert extra whitespaces anywhere, but they are ALWAYS trimmed. No matter where I put them.

I just read somewhere that this is XML – but you told me that it works in your case – I am confused now???

Answer 1

This seems to work fine in a textview like

textView.setText("1. this is my first paragraph. Where\n    it is important that it is correctly\n    aligned.");

The only thing I changed was ‘/n’ to ‘\n’