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How do these non-technical academics even create a PDF file with a name like that?

Right click, rename, enter, enter, enter (until the entire file name is visible on the box)? That's how I did it when I used Windows.

Edit: now I remember the most basic way: open the pdf, select and copy the title, click on rename and paste from clipboard. Works great to get the file name with the newlines exactly as they are on the title!

Doesn't <enter> just confirm the typed input for the filename and finish the renaming? How does that insert newlines?

Shrug, I last used windows with Windows 7, so you are probably right. That being said, at least two of the students I am currently tutoring are on XP and one of my colleagues as well :D

No, it was always this way.

Right, I just remembered the main way to create those filenames: open the pdf, select and copy the title, close, rename the file and paste from clipboard.

Yes - I just tested on Win10+11 because I thought "there is no way I didn't accidentally do something like this on accident... and I would have remembered seeing a new line in my file name when I made that mistake."

I just opened a folder in file explorer, clicked 'rename' and then tried the following combinations: Enter L Ctrl + Enter L Alt + Enter Win + Enter R Ctrl + Enter R Alt + Enter

None of them let me put new lines in the filename - it either did nothing, or 'closed' the rename view.

I don't know if this is a Linux thing, but when renaming a file, when I press enter, I apply the new name, the file manager doesn't add a newline.

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