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Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> >> In the latex version they're not exported for some reasons...
> >
> > That is correct, we have not implemented keeping all line breaks in
> > LaTeX.
> 
> I've searched around a bit, and to my big surprise, I cannot find a
> LaTeX package preserving line breaks.  I understand such a function
> doesn't come along nicely with the general LaTeX philosophy, but it
> should be possible after all...
> 
> Did anyone already tried to find such a package ?
> 

Not a package, but there is \obeylines (plain TeX) that will
preserve line breaks - e.g. Knuth[1] suggests that it be used for
typesetting poetry:

{\obeylines\smallskip
Roses are red,
\quad Violets are blue;
Rhymes can be typeset
\quad with boxes and glue.
\smallskip}

It apparently works by pretending that the newline is a \par token.

Nick

[1] Knuth, "The TeXbook", p. 94