[Pmwiki-users] Re: beginners fight

[Christian Ridderström]

On Sat, 22 May 2004, J. Meijer wrote:

> 
> >From PmWiki.TextFormattingRules:
> 
>   c.. Use blank lines as separators
>   e.. Use \ (backslash) at the end of a line to join the next line to the
> current one
>   f.. Use \\ (two backslashes) at the end of a line to force a line break
> 
> There is some unexplained magic going on here only those with intimate
> knowledge know about. After all, why use \ when you can delete the newline?

I added two examples here:
	http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/LineContinuation

they should clarify the difference between '\' and '\\'

/Christian

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Christian Ridderstr?m                           http://www.md.kth.se/~chr