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I want to prompt some messages to my console. I used

\message{Hi out there!}

Now i want some more Text but with an linebreak. 

\message{Hello World %some line break here 
Salut monde
}

Well i scanned the TeXbook for and tried many things but without result. I would welcome any (related) comments.

BTW I want that to work with pdf(la)tex as well.

lockstep
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bloodworks
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You could set a value to \newlinechar representing the character which should cause the line break.

This works for me, printing out a line break after Hello World :

\newlinechar=`\^^J
\message{Hello World^^JSalut monde}
Stefan Kottwitz
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    Do you even need the \newlinechar setting by default? But it's good to know how to set it explicitly. – Will Robertson Dec 05 '10 at 12:39
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    @Will: without the setting, TeX printed Hello World^^JSalut monde, when I tested it. But pdfTeX doesn't require it - it breaks the line even without that setting. – Stefan Kottwitz Dec 05 '10 at 14:01
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    Try \showthe\newlinechar. With pdflatex this should show 10, the character code of ^^J. With e.g. pdftex, this gives -1, i.e. no new-line character. – Bruno Le Floch Feb 07 '11 at 10:16