Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote: >Does > > "a > b" > >not do the job for you? > >Shriram > > OK. I have been brainwashed. I'd have never even thought about that. There is one problem though, that method wreaks havoc with code formatting. The result is next to unreadable. I'll use (format "a~nb") , it's not all that much extra work. Are \" and \\ the only escape sequences?