About This Rule Parse Configuration Keys Render Configuration Keys Description
=====  About This Rule =====

| **Name** | prefilter |
| **Type** | filter |
| **Syntax** | n/a |

=====  Parse Configuration Keys =====
None.
=====  Render Configuration Keys =====
None.
=====  Description =====
The 'prefilter' rule does two things:
  * Converts Mac and Dos line endings to Unix line endings
  * Takes lines ending in \ and concatenates them with the next line.For example, this text ...<code>

Line 1

Line 2 \ 
Line 3

Line 4
</code>will become:<code>

Line 1

Line 2 Line 3

Line 4
</code>If you want to end a line in a backslash but do **not** want it concatenated to the next line, put a space after the backslash.If you want to end a line in a backslash **and** concatenate it to the next line, use two backslashes.