Nick wrote:

> Why exactly the last one is parsed as a literal string and not as a line
> break, I don't know. Nicolas will probably explain all. The only thing I
> can say is that if there is something other than whitespace on the line
> before the \\, it gets parsed as a line break; if there is only
> whitespace (or nothing), it gets parsed as a string. That's probably a
> rough description and not quite right in all particulars, but I hope
> it's close enough.


So the question remains: How to get generic, consistent vertical space?