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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
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 16:25:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh7daezu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAOQHXPpZC_fJ7y4BUrpSuMSS666DGtnvqf4sBkRu5YmWdAoTZg@mail.gmail.com

Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all
>
> i decided to dive into the deep water and get rid of M$ word once and
> for all. I'm still an org novice but since i love org i choose org
> for the task.
>
> 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?


Hi there,

I've never used this, but I think `org-export-preserve-breaks' is the
option you want. Try setting it in a single buffer with #+OPTIONS:
\n:nil and see what happens...

Eric

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2013-10-22  8:25 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 [this message]
2013-10-22  9:39 ` Suvayu Ali
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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