That worked!
Thank you @kaushalmodi.
The text
copyright = "My name<br />Links to Hugo and Theme"
gave me
This is exactly what I was aiming for.
I have also taken a look at this thread.
and taken a look at the Icarus file:
layouts/partials/footer.html
It has these lines:
<footer id="footer">
<div class="outer">
<div id="footer-info" class="inner">
© {{ now.Format "2006"}}
{{ with .Site.Params.copyright }}{{ . | markdownify}}{{ end }}
</div>
</div>
</footer>
where I suspect that markdownify
might be the cause of the different interpretations given to \n
in the experiments above.
Thanks for helping me learn and also for suggesting the solution.