Peter Daum am Sonntag, 6. August 2006 19:34:
> Tom Phoenix wrote:
> > If the renderer you're using supports it, you can produce a newline
> > character with the formatting code E<10>. But older renderers (and
> > maybe even some newer ones) may not give you the effect you're looking
> > for.
> >
> > What are you trying to do? You can have direct control of line breaks
> > in what the perlpod manpage calls a "Verbatim Paragraph", if that's
> > what you need.
>
> What I am looking for is a way to force a new line at a certain
> place, pretty much like '<br>' in HTML, but independent of the
> context and the output format. Using verbatim paragraphs would
> mean doing without any formatting.
>
> I'm afraid, the E<10> is about close as it gets...

Try

This is a textE<10> E<8>with a line break.

Note the space between the E<>. It works for me with perldoc. 

Dani


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