Pandoc error on multline string

[ntjess]

#let a = "
This is a
multiline string
"

This is a valid typst document but results in the following pandoc error:

".\tmp.typ" (line 1, column 11):
unexpected "\n"
expecting "\"" or "\\"

[jgm]

Can you point to any typst documentation on multiline strings?

[ntjess]

Just looked quickly through docs, issues, and typst codebase tests. I can't seem to find any references to this behavior.

@laurmaedje Is this public behavior, or is it not guaranteed that future version of typst preserve and allow newlines in a string expression? If it's public, it might be good to add a comment in the docs

[laurmaedje]

There is no guarantee in the sense that breaking changes might occur, but it's public and intended behaviour.

[jgm]

Is there any special syntax? Can you just put line breaks inside any string, or does the initial " need to be followed by a newline and the final " preceded by one?

[laurmaedje]

You can just put linebreaks anywhere.