How to have real newline in emdeded command lines?

[Jean-Cedric Chappelier]

Hello,

sorry to disturb you with my question, but I did not find any
hints on the documentations nor on the Internet...
Maybe I missed something.

What I want to do is to have a sed command emeded in the make
directives, but this sed command has to have some newlines in there.
Here is the example:

variables.pdf: fichesresume.ps
        @psselect -q -p2 $< |\
        sed '/^TexDict begin$$/ a\
        SDict begin [ /CropBox [0 40 595 850] /PAGES pdfmark end\
        Someothestuff' | ps2pdf - $@

The problem comes from line 2 and 3 where there nust be a newline
given to sed! But this newline is eated by make...
I really don't know how to do this.

I tryed some things like (end of second line):
        a\\\
        a\\\n\
etc...
All of them (of course ?) don't work

Replacing the sed by echo clearly show the thing:
whatever I do the last \ is considered as an embeded newline
(this is normal), and there is now way to tell that I want
a real newline before!

Ta make the things a bit more clear if they are not enough:
if I remove the @ make give me this:

psselect -q -p2 fichesresume.ps |\
sed '/^TexDict begin$/ a\
SDict begin [ /CropBox [0 40 595 850] /PAGES pdfmark end\
Someothestuff' | ps2pdf - variables.pdf
[+error messages]

which is exactly the command I want.
If I copy this directly to my shell it works perfectly.
Once again the problem come from the fact that
make does not send
    /^TexDict begin$/ a\
    SDict begin [ /CropBox [0 40 595 850] /PAGES pdfmark end\
    Someothestuff
to sed (which is correct) but
/^TexDict begin$/ a SDict begin [ /CropBox [0 40 595 850] /PAGES pdfmark 
end Someothestuff
in 1 line (althoght my mailer certainly cut it into several when
sending)

So, is there a way to do this??

I finaly wrote a shell script and called it from the Makefile
but I found this solution ugly and wished to have only 1 file:
one pretty Makefile that make the whole stuff.
Is it possible?

Thank you for your help.
Best,

P.S.: I don't read the mailing list, so would you be kind enough
to answer (or CC) me personnaly, please.
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