Attached is a patch to support \newline in tex2lyx. Jürgen, OK for branch?
regards Uwe
Index: text.cpp =================================================================== --- text.cpp (revision 21744) +++ text.cpp (working copy) @@ -2186,6 +2186,12 @@ } } + else if (t.cs() == "newline") { + context.check_layout(os); + os << "\n\\" << t.cs() << "\n"; + skip_braces(p); // eat {} + } + else if (t.cs() == "input" || t.cs() == "include" || t.cs() == "verbatiminput") { string name = '\\' + t.cs();