title: How do I get a hard line break in a multiline table using markdown
body: <p>The <a href="http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_pandoc_markdown.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">markdown docs claim</a>:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>A backslash followed by a newline is also a hard line break. Note: in
  multiline and grid table cells, this is the only way to create a hard
  line break, since trailing spaces in the cells are ignored.</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>I have an 2 column table where I could make this work for the last column in the row:</p>
  <pre><code>-------------------------------------------------
                             35                    
  -------------------------- ----------------------
  **0-6 mon**                1                    \
                             0.5                  \
                             0                    \
                             0                    \
                             0                     
                             
  -------------------------------------------------
  </code></pre>
  <p>However, when I try to do it for two columns in a row, it fails.  If I do it like this, it makes a table, but only puts hard breaks on the last column:</p>
  <pre><code>------------------------------------------------------------------------
                              35                     35-45                
  -------------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------
  **0-6 mon**                1                                           \
                             0.5                                         \
                             0                                           \
                             0                                           \
                             0                      3                    \
                                                    13                   \
                                                    0                    \
                                                    0.02                 \
                                                    0                     
  
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  </code></pre>
  <p>If I do it like this, it doesn't consider it a valid table:</p>
  <pre><code>------------------------------------------------------------------------
                              35                     35-45                
  -------------------------- ---------------------- ----------------------
  **0-6 mon**                1                    \
                             0.5                  \
                             0                    \
                             0                    \
                             0                      3                    \
                                                    13                   \
                                                    0                    \
                                                    0.02                 \
                                                    0                     
  
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  </code></pre>
  <p>Has anyone ever got this to work?</p>
  <p>The answer appears to be: you can not do this with a &quot;multiline&quot; table, only with a grid table.  The question marked as a potential duplicate was asking about how to do this in HTML, my question is how to do this so it will work for any output format.</p>