Re: How \c works (was: removing the .IX macro from the ms package in 1.23 breaks old documents)

[Tadziu Hoffmann]

> we already have a means of input line continuation [...]

Not in the sense that the input line can be interrupted by
some other processing and then continued.  But we do have a
workaround for this situation: append material to a string
until the full line has been assembled, and then feed it
into the input stream.