Comment 1 Frederic Fusier 2008-05-14 07:15:34 EDT

The real problem is in fact for blank lines at the beginning of the code (e.g. after the <pre> tag and before the first character of the snippet) and at the end of the code (e.g. after the last character of the snippet and before the </pre> tag).

The following example:
interface X01 {
	/**
	 * <pre>
	 * 
	 * 
	 * public class Example {final int a= 1;final boolean b= true;}
	 * 
	 * 
	 * </pre>
	 */
	int foo();
}
is currently formatted as follow with Eclipse built-in:
interface X01 {
	/**
	 * <pre>
	 * 
	 * 
	 * public class Example {
	 * 	final int a = 1;
	 * 	final boolean b = true;
	 * }
	 * 
	 * 
	 * </pre>
	 */
	int foo();
}
(Note that Number of empty lines to preserve = 1 for Eclipse built-in settings)

So, the formatted output should be instead:
interface X01 {
	/**
	 * <pre>
	 * 
	 * public class Example {
	 * 	final int a = 1;
	 * 	final boolean b = true;
	 * }
	 * 
	 * </pre>
	 */
	int foo();
}

Note that in 3.3 the output is:
interface X01 {
	/**
	 * <pre>
	 * public class Example {
	 * 	final int a = 1;
	 * 	final boolean b = true;
	 * }
	 * 
	 * </pre>
	 */
	int foo();
}

Comment 2 Robert Roth 2015-05-02 10:45:26 EDT

On eclipse 4.5M6 I get the correct number of empty lines preserved inside <pre> tags. Do you still see this issue with a recent eclipse version?

Comment 3 Mateusz Matela 2018-01-06 20:33:26 EST

This problem no longer occurs after the formatter redesign.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 303519 ***