Re: Feature request: preserving plain list line breaks in exporting

From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: Wanrong Lin <wanrong.lin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: preserving plain list line breaks in exporting
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:13:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eix5i6uh.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49B6A795.9010806@gmail.com> (Wanrong Lin's message of "Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:47:01 -0400")

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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