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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: a more inteligant way of signaling the exporter to start a new
 line than "\\"?
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 23:23:07 -0400
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Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks so much Eric
>
> that helped me alot :)
>
> appreciate it

And, if the time ever comes that you really do want to preserve line
breaks for some reason, you can set the org-export-preserve-breaks
variable to t, or use the \n:nil OPTIONS line.

>
> Z
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>
>     On Monday, 19 Oct 2015 at 16:10, Xebar Saram wrote:
>     > Hi
>     >
>     > This maybe a really stupid neewb question, but when im writing
>     my slides
>     > and course homework in org and export to reveal html, pdf etc i
>     always get
>     > all lines stitched together and the only way i managed to get
>     over this is
>     > use a "\\" sign at the end of EACH line. this is really
>     cumbersome. I
>     > wonder how you more experienced guys deal with this? am i
>     missing
>     > something? cant the exporter just use emacs lines as lines? why
>     are they
>     > getting joined during export?
>
>     Essentially you want each line to be a separate "paragraph" so
>     simply
>     leave a blank line in between:
>
>     #+begin_src org
>     ,*** Basic data types in R
>     Decimals values like 4.5 are called numerics
>
>     Natural numbers like 4 are called integers. Integers are also
>     numerics
>     #+end_src
>
>     --
>     : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.5.1, Org
>     release_8.3beta-1229-ge900eb