[MC-52919] Book & Quills will not allow for new lines through command blocks

When typing a give command to give the player a writable book, there is no way to implement a new line.

give @a written_book 1 0 {display:{Name:"Bug Report Book"},pages:["There is no way to issue a new line except by using spaces                                                   like this."],author:"Jira"}

Using blockdata on a book in a chest shows there is a [LF] icon but it cannot be copied into a command block.

Comments 5

destruc7i0n 2014-04-13T18:00:32Z

This will be needed for mapmakers!

qmagnet 2014-05-17T13:27:38Z

This bug will always exist until Mojang adds a new line character. Checking on snapshots updates will yield little results.

Skylinerw 2014-06-26T09:18:01Z

With the changes to the 'pages' tag having access to the JSON text component, you can use the newline character \n to insert a newline (in 14w25a):

/give @a written_book 1 0 {title:"Test",author:"test",pages:["{text:\"Line 1\nLine 2\"}"]}

qmagnet 2014-06-26T11:28:37Z

Ah yes I did not see that feature. Wonderful! Fixed!

qmagnet 2014-07-21T23:22:43Z

Mods, this was fixed in 14w25a