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## Manual Page Viewer

Name: PLAIN-TEXT

Section: String Operators

Synopsis:

`<plain-text [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.<p>
      <font size="+2">T</font>his is line 2.
    </plain-text>

produces:

    This is line 1.
      This is line 2.

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