> Are you using XMLEditor 5.3.0. I remember, Gunnar and I had trouble due to a different version.

5.2.0

> Asciidoc (and text based markup generally) do solve this problem as we as a team can decide

sure, different tooling might be a solution. I am still a little sceptical about Asciidoc, but happy to try. Are there already maven
plugins to convert from asciidoc to docbook? Or would we try to go directly from asciidoc to html/pdf? I guess that would cause problems with the gettext translation system

>  not to do text wrap and do say one sentence per line.

-1 that seems wrong. I think the test should read as close as possible to "normal" text/prosa. One sentence per line is something for poems, but not for regular text. I guess we could have some some set line length and break around that.