From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: vertical space Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:16:28 +0100 Message-ID: <87a9ecd0rn.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55890) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W99Gr-0006uW-FX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:16:25 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W99Gh-0007Ym-Jh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:16:17 -0500 Received: from mail-ee0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c00::22b]:54915) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W99Gh-0007Yi-D3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 03:16:07 -0500 Received: by mail-ee0-f43.google.com with SMTP id c41so2058561eek.2 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:16:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Rustom Mody's message of "Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:14:55 +0530") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Rustom Mody Cc: emacs-orgmode Hello, Rustom Mody writes: >> Why exactly the last one is parsed as a literal string and not as a line >> break, I don't know. Nicolas will probably explain all. The only thing I >> can say is that if there is something other than whitespace on the line >> before the \\, it gets parsed as a line break; if there is only >> whitespace (or nothing), it gets parsed as a string. That's probably a >> rough description and not quite right in all particulars, but I hope >> it's close enough. > > > So the question remains: How to get generic, consistent vertical > space? You can try a verse environment. There is an implicit line break at the end of each line, indentation and vertical space are preserved. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou