On 15/06/2008, Chris Bannister <mockingbird@earthlight.co.nz> wrote: > Interesting, I have been using "\newline". Where did you find out out > about the "\\~\\" method? \\ seems to be a synonym for \newline, or maybe it's one of those TeX vs LaTeX things (e.g. $$...$$ vs \[...\]). And ~ is a space. So newline, space, newline. I guess you need the space there otherwise the \\ \\ would only put one newline in the target text. - Jordi G. H.