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From: Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: preserving plain list line breaks in exporting
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:49:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B6B647.20201@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eix5i6uh.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ>


The double back slashes works well (although that is not as pretty as I 
want). Thank you!

Wanrong

Sebastian Rose wrote:
> Try:
>
> * TODO Read books
>   1. [ ] Book 1 \\
>          Note: blah blah blah
>   2. [ ] Book 2 \\
>          Note: blah blah blah
>
> Or even:
>
> * TODO Read books
>   1. [ ] Book 1 ::
>          Note: blah blah blah
>   2. [ ] Book 2 ::
>          Note: blah blah blah
>
>  plus CSS
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>   Sebastian
>
>
> Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com> writes:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Suppose I have a plain list as the following:
>>
>> * TODO Read books
>>  1. [ ] Book 1
>>         Note: blah blah blah
>>  2. [ ] Book 2
>>         Note: blah blah blah
>>
>> When the above is exported to HTML, the line breaks after the "heading line" of
>> each list item are lost, so it becomes "Book1 Note: blah blah blah", which does
>> not look very nice to me. I know I can keep the line breaks by inserting a blank
>> line, like this:
>>
>> * TODO Read books
>>  1. [ ] Book 1
>>
>>         Note: blah blah blah
>>  2. [ ] Book 2
>>
>>         Note: blah blah blah
>>
>> Well, this will fix the export, but the text above looks ugly now, especially
>> when the "Note" part is very short.
>>
>> Can we add some kind of option to control whether the line break after the first
>> line of a plain list item should be preserved in exporting? Or maybe we can
>> assume the line breaks should be preserved when "org-cycle-include-plain-lists"
>> is set to "t", since in that case we are treating the plain list item kind of
>> like a heading.
>>
>> Note setting "org-export-preserve-breaks" does not meet my needs, since that
>> will preserve ALL breaks.
>>
>> Thanks for giving the above a thought.
>>
>> Wanrong
>>
>>
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>
>   

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-10 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-10 17:47 Feature request: preserving plain list line breaks in exporting Wanrong Lin
2009-03-10 18:13 ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-10 18:49   ` Wanrong Lin [this message]
2009-03-10 19:40     ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-10 21:02       ` Wanrong Lin
2009-03-12  2:07         ` Eddward DeVilla

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