From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:39:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131022093943.GX6656@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOQHXPpZC_fJ7y4BUrpSuMSS666DGtnvqf4sBkRu5YmWdAoTZg@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:55:12AM +0200, Xebar Saram wrote:
>
> I'm trying to write a simple guidebook for my students in a GIS course.
> Everything works great apart for the life of me i cant get the hang of
> formatting and specifically how to insert (automatically?) line breaks so
> that its discrete lines and not a paragraph. i think one can use '\\' to
> indicate a line break but since its a guidebook "form" there are almost no
> paragraphs and most line are 1 liners, so it seems to me crazy to go over
> hundred lines of text and attach a \\ at the end. What am i missing here?
>
> i hope i made sense :) any help or documentation links would be really
> appreciated!
>
> I'm attaching a short example of my org file, note that where i want single
> lines i add a empty space between lines but still in the exporter it
> creates a paragraph out of these lines
>
I think you are better off trying to do this with a specialised LaTeX
class. A quick search led me to this TeX.SX question:
<http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3852>. You could also try using lists,
just disable the bullets with an option in an #+attr_latex line.
GL,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-22 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-22 7:55 trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating Xebar Saram
2013-10-22 8:16 ` Glyn Millington
2013-10-22 8:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-22 9:39 ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
2013-10-22 12:14 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-23 1:00 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-23 6:11 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-23 8:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-23 12:23 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-23 13:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-23 14:23 ` Glyn Millington
2013-10-23 18:19 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-23 22:15 ` Glyn Millington
2013-10-24 5:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-24 10:43 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-10-24 14:53 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-27 6:49 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-23 13:32 ` Rick Frankel
2013-10-22 16:42 ` Rick Frankel
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