On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Jeff Bigler wrote:

> > 2.2. Continuation of input lines If the last (non-space, non-remark)
> > character on a line is a backslash (\), the next line should be
> > appended to the current one, overwriting the backslash and any spaces
> > or remarks that follow it, to make one long logical line.

> It breaks some other existing parts of the standard, including:
>    b) \,c (for c-cedille) and other commands that give accented
>       characters

According to the ABC standard, end-of-line remarks
start with the character '%'.

So something like "\,c" or even "\ x y z" cannot
possibly be interpreted as a continuation construct.


 Groeten,
 Irwin Oppenheim
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