RE: line breaks in rtf backend.

[Horst Kucharczyk <horst@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 07:54 20-01-1999 -0000, you wrote:
>
>Horst  wrote:
>
>I don't remember if we plucked it out of a reference file or just gave it
>the rather obvious name. You can also use the unicode.
>
>&return; 
><!ENTITY return	CDATA "\U-000D;">
>
>Oops, no. This is 'hard' return surely? I.e. will insert 
>the paragraph break which will mess up the appearance.

It's my turn to say oops: I took this for granted.
It's a shame it doesn't work for the RTF backend, but it's probably
correct. I'm quite sure that via the TeX backend (and jadetex) it's just a
newline, not a new paragraph. And that might be incorrect since he standard
specifies it should create a sequence of paragraphs. I checked, and we use
make paragraph-break to get a soft return via jadetex ->PDF.
The more I think about it, the more I get confused. 
By the way, do carriage return (\U-000D;) and line-feed (\U-000A;) both
result in a paragraph-break?

>Is there a soft break equivalent?

The string you want in RTF is "\line", have you tried passing that as a
literal?

best regards

Horst Kucharczyk

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