Re: Doc-string with newline character

[Thomas Morley]

Am Mi., 30. Dez. 2020 um 10:37 Uhr schrieb Jonas Hahnfeld <hahnjo@hahnjo.de>:
>
> Hi,
>
> Am Mittwoch, dem 30.12.2020 um 10:31 +0100 schrieb Thomas Morley:
> > Hi,
> >
> > while preparing a patch a noticed a problem with a doc-string:
> > I want to refer to newline characters and wrote "@code{#\newline}",
> > but it comes out as
> > # ewline
> > for both pdf and html.
> > I couldn't figure how to let print
> > #\newline
> >
> > Any hint?
>
> I didn't try, but I could imagine that you need to escape the backslash
> so it's not expanded when parsing the string, like so:
>     @code{#\\newline}
>
> Does this help?
>
> Jonas

@code{#\\newline} did the trick already (I thought I had checked this...)
Patch is now up
https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/merge_requests/581

Though, there is a further question.
The patch aims at introducing a new markup-list-command. Thus the
doc-string is taken for
NR A.12 Text markup list commands
This now looks as attached.

I'd love to see there
"
Used properties
- split-char (#\newline)
"

Any chance?

Thanks,
  Harm

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