Name: PLAIN-TEXT

Section: String Operators

Synopsis:

<plain-text &key [FIRST-CHAR=EXPR] [NOBR=TRUE]
  body
</plain-text>

Description:

Performs the following steps:

1. Replace occurrences of pairs of newline characters with a single <P> tag.

2. Applies the function EXPR to the first character of every paragraph, and inserts the closing tag after that character.

The output will start with a <P> tag, unless the optional argument NOBR=TRUE is given.

<plain-text first-char=<font size="+1"> nobr=true>
This is line 1.

This is line 2.
</plain-text>

produces:

This is line 1.

This is line 2.

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