.....but an important one, IMO.

In the "String Formatting" section, not too far down from the top, there is a
simple example of formatting use...

#debug "This is one line.\nBut this is another"\n

It doesn't get much simpler than that! Yet it doesn't work (a fatal error)--at
least on the Windows platform. The final quote is in the wrong place. Here's a
corrected version...

#debug "This is one line.\nBut this is another\n"

Yeah, it's a small mistake, but an irritating one; this single non-working
example gave me ZERO confidence about string use (and #debug) when I first
started out, and I avoided them for a long time. (Is it possible that the
example was originally meant for a non-Windows environment?)

Here's the wiki page, BTW...
http://wiki.povray.org/content/Reference:User_Message_Directives#Text_Formatting

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