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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Karthik Chikmagalur <karthikchikmagalur@gmail.com>
Cc: Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is the purpose of \\ in org-add-note?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 06:39:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZT9Bg2M5gQ9rfZEI@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87jzr4swa6.fsf@gmail.com>

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On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 07:01:53PM -0700, Karthik Chikmagalur wrote:
> > It ensures a line break (say, when the document is exported). From the
> > [[info:org#Paragraphs][org#Paragraphs]] section in the manual:
> >
> > #+begin_quote
> > Paragraphs are separated by at least one empty line.  If you need to
> > enforce a line break within a paragraph, use ‘\\’ at the end of a line.
> > #+end_quote
> 
> Good to know, thank you.

It is stolen from LaTeX, see,e.g. [1].

(it was difficult to find a ref which is *not* stackoverflow
and its ilk, sigh)

Cheers

[1] http://www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_101.html#SEC101
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      reply	other threads:[~2023-10-30  5:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-29 21:13 What is the purpose of \\ in org-add-note? Karthik Chikmagalur
2023-10-30  0:18 ` Suhail Singh
2023-10-30  2:01   ` Karthik Chikmagalur
2023-10-30  5:39     ` tomas [this message]

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