How to add line breaks to the specialties section of your LinkedIn profile

Question

How can we create line breaks in a way that they are respected by LinkedIn?

I'm using a Unix system (OS X). I found this answer, but I think there has to be a way of doing it without running a Live CD.

Solution

If some people are reporting that it works on Linux, it's likely to be caused by the different line endings used by Windows.

At the end of a line:

• Windows uses carriage return, line feed (CRLF, \r\n)
• Linux uses line feed (LF, \n)
• Mac uses carriage return (CR, \r)

These are leftovers from ye olden days of computing, which, if you're really interested in it, you can read more about on Wikipedia's newline article.

Anyway, if you use a more powerful text editor on your Windows computer, many will have the option of converting line-breaks to the different styles. Just off the top of my head, Notepad++ and Komodo Edit are two free editors which can do this.

Comments

[gnarf]

If it weren't for open bounties, I would vote to close this based on the fact that its off-topic / not programming related. Perhaps the linked in support forums are a better place to try to solve this issue which is obviously some sort of input constraint applied by the website itself.

[phildeutsch]

This is defo off topic and not programming related...voting to close as this should be filed under LinkedIn's own website as an issue there!

[Paweł Hajdan]

Agreed; this isn't programming related. It is very rare we do so, but I've revoked (refunded) the bounty. I'm moving it to superuser, where it may have a slightly better fit.

[ChrisF]

@Marc - it's about a web site, which isn't appropriate for Super User.

[Admin]

I'm actually using OSX.

[Greg Hewgill]

It's worth noting that old Mac OS uses CR only. OS X and later uses LF, like the rest of the (non-Windows) world.