title: How to put a newline in ant property
body: <p>This doesn't seem to work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;property name="foo" value="\n bar \n"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I use the property value in the body of an e-mail message (which is sent as plain text):</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;mail ...&gt;
    &lt;message&gt;some text${foo}&lt;/message&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and I get literal "\n" in the e-mail output.</p>