Hello, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes:
>> Why exactly the last one is parsed as a literal string and not as a line >> break, I don't know. Nicolas will probably explain all. The only thing I >> can say is that if there is something other than whitespace on the line >> before the \\, it gets parsed as a line break; if there is only >> whitespace (or nothing), it gets parsed as a string. That's probably a >> rough description and not quite right in all particulars, but I hope >> it's close enough. > > > So the question remains: How to get generic, consistent vertical > space? You can try a verse environment. There is an implicit line break at the end of each line, indentation and vertical space are preserved. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou