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Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:18:38PM -0400, DaveG wrote:
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<pre wrap=""> Still not sure what's happening in this case:
# Line 1 \\
Attach:abc.jpg \\
# Line 2
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A backslash at the end of a line "joins" the subsequent line to the
previous one. Extra backslashes introduce line breaks. So, the
two slashes after the image above cause # Line 2 to be treated as
a continuation of Line 1, which isn't what you want.
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Not sure your description is totally accurate. The \\ joins the
subsequent line, but is primarily used when you want a styling affect
to carry from the first to the second line, rather than to merely merge
to lines. If you simply enter a single carriage return, the lines join
together, no \\ required:<br>
abc<br>
def<br>
<br>
Results in:<br>
abc def<br>
<br>
This is confusing, particularly with images:<br>
abc<br>
Attach:image.jpg<br>
<br>
Results in:<br>
abc <image><br>
<br>
rather than:<br>
abc<br>
<image><br>
<br>
To get the affect with no blank line output, we need to:<br>
abc\\\<br>
Attach:image.jpg<br>
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Newbie members at my site frequently hit a single cr at the end of a
line, only to have it join back to the originating line. Why not just
do a <br> on a single cr, and use the \\ to span styles over
lines, and thus eliminate \\\? I suspect there's plenty of history I'm
missing here... :)<br>
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~ ~ Dave<br>
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As you already discovered; the general mechanism to get a blank line
in the output is to put a blank line in the input. :-)
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This makes sense... except for the examples above!<br>
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