Are you trying to count paragraphs (the # of paragraphs) or the # of lines within a single paragraph? To count the paragraphs (well, really, you’ll be counting the number of line breaks + 1) you’ll need to split on the line break tag that FreeMarker substitutes for the

\n

, which is either

<br />

or

<br>

(can’t remember which at the moment). It need to make that substitution, since that is how both browsers and BFO recognize a new line. If you want to count the lines within a single paragraph, though, that could be harder as there may not be any true line breaks, the text could be wrapping.

Thank you for your time and reply ! I think that it’s all embedded in a single paragraph. Is there a way for me to check that ?

Well, if you print the document as HTML, instead of PDF, you’ll be able to view the output, and see if there are any separators or not.