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So, the "\n" is cross platform already.

Also, when you say "writing to disk", do you mean the hard drive, and hence that I shouldn't use JTextArea write() or whatever it was called to do it?
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Thanks. So, what do you use then for a cross-platform line break thing? I heard that "\n" was only for Windows or something. That it wouldn't work on all systems.

(By the way, I did get it...

I have made a SSCCE, it only has what I need. The problem happens to be replicated in this section, so my hunch was correct of where the problem was coming from. I think I might know the issue.
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