Re: rendering a string as a new line?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Janusz S. Bien' wrote:

> I will have to work systematically with Unicode files which happen to
> use some strange tags to represent new line. Is there a way to render
> the tags as newlines without explicitly adding the new line
> characters?

If the tag is a single character, you could set up a display table that

has a newline in that character's glyph.  If the tag is more than 1
character (e.g. an XML tag), you could put an overlay on it that specifies
a before-string or after-string property with a newline.

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Kevin Rodgers