Writing String to an rtf in java doesn't keep structure

I wrote a FileMerge class where I take an rtf and replace certain tags with SQL data. Everything is ok but one part in开发者_Python百科 which I replace one tag with one or more lines, it replaces the file but \n or \r\n doesn't create a new line when opened in word.

the code:

String otherFamilyString="\n";


    for(int i=0;i<OtherFamily.size();i=i+TotalArguments)
    {
        otherFamilyString +=  "\n"+OtherFamily.get(i+FamilyMbrId) +"|\t"+ OtherFamily.get(i+FamilyMbrName) +"|\t"+ OtherFamily.get(i+FamilyStatus)+"|\t"
        + OtherFamily.get(i+FamilyCoveragetype) +"|  "+ OtherFamily.get(i+FamilyRelationship) +"|" ;
        System.out.print(i+" "+otherFamilyString);


    }
    newtext = newtext.replaceAll("OTHERFAMILY",otherFamilyString);



    FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(outPutDir+memberInfo.get(GroupId).replace(" ", "")+newName.replace("*", "")); 
    writer.write(newtext);//write the new file 
    writer.close();

I also tried System.getProperty("line.separator") unsuccessfully.

When I open the file in notepad, I can see that all of the code is in rich text except this part which shows in the right structure. I think I need a way to write this string in rich text format so it will show good in word.

Thank you for the help, Idan.

Here is some documentation pertaining to the RTF format: http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/RTF-Writer/lib/RTF/Cookbook.pod#RTF_Document_Structure

It says to specify a newline using a \line command.

In RTF, line breaks are not indicated by a new line in the text - instead, you must use the right control sequence to do this. From skimming over the specification, \line looks like a hard line break, and \par like a paragraph break.