diff --git a/Spec-template.docx b/Spec-template.docx
index feaf0abee3803203dc4b0160dde7ff088e79d8bc..cf93ab990246578bfb08e998b64100570df19995 100644
Binary files a/Spec-template.docx and b/Spec-template.docx differ
diff --git a/generateChangemarks/pandocFilter.py b/generateChangemarks/pandocFilter.py
index 41b6ca57a29cd69e397036c6cafdf168119044b0..fdc00c9f899e325498f1fbf8cbbbefc48499598a 100644
--- a/generateChangemarks/pandocFilter.py
+++ b/generateChangemarks/pandocFilter.py
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ def replaceTableCaptions(progress:Progress, mdLines:list[str]) -> list[str]:
 
 
 def replaceFigureCaptions(progress:Progress, mdLines:list[str]) -> list[str]:
-	"""	Replace table captions with a pandoc table caption.
+	"""	Replace figure captions with a pandoc figure caption.
 	"""
 	_taskID = progress.add_task('[blue]Replacing figure captions', start=False, total=0)
 	# progress.update()
@@ -127,6 +127,25 @@ def replaceFigureCaptions(progress:Progress, mdLines:list[str]) -> list[str]:
 	return _lines
 
 
+def replaceLineBreaks(progress: Progress, mdLines: list[str]) -> list[str]:
+	"""	Replace <br /> linebreaks by pandoc escaped_line_breaks extension \(newline).
+	"""
+	_taskID = progress.add_task('[blue]Replacing linebreaks', start=False, total=0)
+	# progress.update()
+	linebreaksregex = re.compile('<br />')
+
+	_lines: list[str] = []
+	for line in mdLines:
+		matches = re.findall(linebreaksregex, line)
+		if matches:
+			# Replace the linebreak with "\(newline)"
+			_lines.append(re.sub(r'<br />', f'\\\n', line))
+		else:
+			_lines.append(line)
+
+	progress.stop_task(_taskID)
+	return _lines
+
 
 def process(document:str, outDirectory:str) -> None:
 	with Progress(TextColumn('{task.description}'),  TimeElapsedColumn()) as progress:
@@ -134,6 +153,7 @@ def process(document:str, outDirectory:str) -> None:
 		mdLines = correctTOC(progress, mdLines)
 		mdLines = replaceTableCaptions(progress, mdLines)
 		mdLines = replaceFigureCaptions(progress, mdLines)
+		mdLines = replaceLineBreaks(progress, mdLines)
 		writeMDFile(progress, mdLines, document, outDirectory)
 
 def main(args=None):
diff --git a/publish_spec.sh b/publish_spec.sh
index 46c7d50324ecfdf98a32c29571ba1704bebaff77..c89d8c55b0be158a08b72a0814deb9db964557c5 100755
--- a/publish_spec.sh
+++ b/publish_spec.sh
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ for i in *.md ;  do
 	    echo "\n------ Preparaing spec --------"
 	    docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/tmp/ -u $(id -u):$(id -g) "$TOOLS_DOCKER_IMAGE" pandocFilter -o "/tmp/" "/tmp/$i"
 	    echo "\n------ Publishing spec --------"
-	    docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/data -u $(id -u):$(id -g) "$DOCKER_IMAGE" "/data/$i" -f markdown -t docx --reference-doc "/data/${3}" -o "${4}_${2}.docx"
+	    docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/data -u $(id -u):$(id -g) "$DOCKER_IMAGE" "/data/$i" -f markdown+escaped_line_breaks -t docx --reference-doc "/data/${3}" -o "${4}_${2}.docx"
 	fi
 done