It forces what follows to begin on the next line. It goes down two lines, leaving a blank line between paragraphs or a list of items, just like what will happen now. Other attributes are center, right and justify. It gives me justified type or flush borders on both sides of the paragraph. Why anyone would use flush right with ragged left beats me.
Poets like to use centered stuff at times.
Font Control Tags . You can guess most of these. O can make it look a little better if you don't mind reducing the font size just for those numerals. See Examples at characters.htm. This is the very first time I have ever used them in four years.