From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Brian van den Broek <brian.van.den.broek@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Jeff Rush <jrush@taupro.com>
Subject: Re: LaTex Adjustments for Org-Export
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 20:26:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft-54tZeNF5nc=20reSaDw-6s35k_QyZh0J9SLOdaj8s+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF6DajLwCEkmzVkYid7gxMKmSbPeF7=7+RDqY9+f3bpDaTjoRw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Brian van den Broek
<brian.van.den.broek@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jul 31, 2013 8:28 AM, "Jeff Rush" <jrush@taupro.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to export a .org file to .pdf and although I've gotten past
>> many formatting hurdles, I am stuck on two problems.
>>
>
> <snip>
>
>>
>> 2) How can I change the basic formatting of paragraphs everywhere to
>>
>> a) omit the leading indent, and
>> b) have a blank line between paragraphs
>>
>> Instead of this strange-looking style:
>>
>> This is a test paragraph
>> of the following kind of thing.
>> And so is this one.
>>
>> I want it to look like this:
>>
>> This is a test paragraph
>> of the following kind of thing.
>> And so is this one.
>
> Hi all,
>
> (Catching up on the traffic, so a bit late to the thread.)
>
> I don't use org's export facilities, so I am not sure how and where to
> object this into org's export process. But, the LaTeX way is to use the
> parskip package.
>
> Please do reconsider, though. Just about every book on my shelves follows
> what you label a 'strange style,' for the good reason that the style you
> favour can result in ambiguity. (A paragraph that ends a page, takes up the
> entire last line and is followed by a new paragraph cannot be distinguished
> from a paragraph that spans the page break.)
>
True, though when it comes to that sort of thing I look at it from a
probability point of view:
- p(what you described happens): perhaps < 1%, if even that high
- p(looking at default LaTeX format will make my eyes bleed): 100%
That was [mostly] a joke. I'm actually not clear from the text above
what is desired. The description says "no leading indent and blank
line between," but the example text shows non-indent on first
paragraph, indent on second (which would void the page-span concern),
and no line break...
I take it you have literary experience, which I'm glad to have on the
list. Your comment made me consider that I often fiddle with "what
seems to look nice," overlooking that some of these things have a very
specific purpose in terms of avoiding ambiguity or what you described
-- I'd never have thought of that!
John
> Best,
>
> Brian vdB
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-04 1:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-31 12:27 LaTex Adjustments for Org-Export Jeff Rush
2013-07-31 13:44 ` John Hendy
2013-07-31 14:01 ` Nick Dokos
2013-07-31 16:24 ` Nick Dokos
2013-07-31 18:56 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-07-31 21:26 ` Nick Dokos
2013-08-03 20:49 ` Brian van den Broek
2013-08-04 1:26 ` John Hendy [this message]
2013-08-04 2:03 ` David Rogers
2013-08-04 4:16 ` Brian van den Broek
2013-08-04 14:51 ` Anthony Lander
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