r - How can I force a line break in rmarkdown's title?

Question

I have a quite long title in a rmarkdown document and I would like to force a line break in a specific position.

Minimum example:

---
title: "Quite long title want the * line break at the asterisk"
output: html_document
---

I have tried: , ewline, \ and a manual line break. None of them seem to work.

I believe it has to be quite straightforward but I haven't been able to find a solution.

Answer 1

Try using a pipe | in each line:

---
title: |
  | Veryyyyyyy  
  | yyyyyyyyyyyyyy Looooo  
  | oooooooooooooooo
  | oooooooooooong 

author: "Foo Bar"
date: "6 March 2015"
output: html_document
---