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Document calendar back-end handling of %_

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@@ -1570,7 +1570,35 @@ is replaced with "\fIyy\fR", the last two digits of the year.
.TP
.B %_
(percent-underscore) is replaced with a newline. You can use this to
achieve multi-line reminders.
achieve multi-line reminders. Note that calendar back-ends vary in
how they handle multi-line reminders:
.RS
.TP
.B o
Running \fBremind -c\fR preserves newlines in the terminal calendar output.
.TP
.B o
\fBrem2pdf\fR preserves newlines if \fBremind\fR is invoked with the \fB\-pp\fR
or \fB\-ppp\fR option.
.TP
.B o
\fBrem2html\fR preserves newlines if \fBremind\fR is invoked with the
\fB\-pp\fR option.
.TP
.B o
\fBtkremind\fR preserves newlines.\fR
.TP
.B o
\fBrem2ps\fR converts newlines to spaces. But \fBrem2ps\fR is deprecated;
use \fBrem2pdf\fR instead.
.TP
.B o
The "simple calendar" formats (ie, \fBremind\fR's \fB\-s\fR, \fB\-n\fR and
\fB\-p\fR options) convert newlines to spaces.
.PP
All calendar back-ends collapse multiple spaces to a single space and
multiple newlines to a single newline.
.RE
.TP
.B %1
is replaced with "now", "\fIm\fR minutes from now", "\fIm\fR minutes ago",