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I think that \\ is only useful in titles and frames and suchlike.

In general text you can use '\crlf', or for a block where you want to obey
line breaks in the source you can use '\startlines ... \stoplines'.

Duncan

> I badly need a working line break (comparable to the HTML tag <br>). In a
> side note in one of the manuals I found that \\ should work as line break,
> but it doesn't work for me, for example