[Pmwiki-users] Linebreak with '\\' bug

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 12:45:14AM +1200, Robin wrote:
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> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 00:30, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > Ah.  Well, the implication is incorrect -- they aren't exactly
> > equivalent.  Feel free to clarify it in the documentation.  :-)
> Actually, personally I'd like them to be equivalent :) [[<<]] is a bit ugly.
> (used to \\ from LaTeX) What is it exactly that \\ does then? It seems a 
> little confusing right now...

\\ at the end of a line means insert a line break and join the next
line.  The two shouldn't be exactly equivalent anyway--there's a need for
separate break markups.  For example, [[<<]] clears beyond any floating
images, while \\ does not.

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