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Line Breaks:

Our paragraphs are always tagged with <p>, which generates a line break at the end of each paragraph, so there is no need to indicate anything.

But there are occasions when we need to force a line break within a paragraph, for example, in prose translations of verse texts, which are not structured with <l> but with <p>. If you want to visually distinguish in the translation where the beginning of each line of verse would be, you can insert a manual line break with <lb/> (line beginning).

<p>Guía de tu padre ciego y único alivio
	<lb/>de su cansancio, hija mía, ¡qué valioso es para mí
	<lb/>el haberte engendrado incluso así! Abandona a tu infausto padre.
	<lb/>¿Por qué enderezas mis pasos errantes?
	<lb/>Deja que me pierda; yo solo encontraré mejor el camino
	<lb/>que busco, el que me retire de esta vida
	<lb/>y alivie de contemplar esta infame cabeza mía
	<lb/>al cielo y a la tierra. ¡Qué poco he hecho yo con mi mano!
	<lb/>No veo la luz del día, cómplice de mi crimen,
	<lb/>pero soy visto. Suelta ya esa mano que me aferra
	<lb/>y permite a mis ciegos pies ir adonde quieran.</p>

These line breaks do not imply the end of a paragraph in any way, they are simply a form of visual organisation of the content.

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