java - XWPFRun.setText() doesn't seem to respect line breaks or tabs? -

here sample code, "\t" not work settext method?:

xwpfdocument document = new xwpfdocument(); xwpfparagraph tp = document.createparagraph(); xwpfrun trun = tp.createrun(); trun.settext("a"); trun.settext("\t"); // not work trun.settext("b");  fileoutputstream outstream = null; try {     outstream = new fileoutputstream("testtabwithpoi.doc");     document.write(outstream);     outstream.close(); } catch (filenotfoundexception e) {     e.printstacktrace(); } catch (ioexception e) {     e.printstacktrace(); } 

that isn't how add tabs or newlines run. way microsoft words generates files add special break style elements, , therefore that's need in apache poi too, since that's how format works.

you can see example of adding tags in testaddtabsandlinebreaks() of testxwpfrun. code needs be:

xwpfrun trun = tp.createrun(); trun.settext("a"); trun.addtab(); trun.settext("b"); 

(you'll need using new copy of apache poi addtab() support)