\obeycr & \restorecr (LaTeX2e unofficial reference manual (November 2018))

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### 9.2 `\obeycr` & `\restorecr`

The `\obeycr` command makes a return in the input file (‘`^^M`’, internally) the same as `\\`, followed by `\relax`. So each new line in the input will also be a new line in the output. The `\restorecr` command restores normal line-breaking behavior.

This is not the way to show verbatim text or computer code. See verbatim instead.

With LaTeX’s usual defaults, this

    aaa
    bbb

    \obeycr
    ccc
    ddd
       eee

    \restorecr
    fff
    ggg

    hhh
    iii

produces output like this.

      aaa bbb
      ccc
    ddd
    eee

    fff ggg
      hhh iii

The indents are paragraph indents.

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