From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: Re: Differences html/pdf Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:48:40 -0400 Message-ID: <11419.1256755720@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org> References: <534212BF-E986-4F60-A4FB-BBD00DE08F0C@gmail.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3DbH-0006EF-45 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:50:27 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3DbA-0006BM-Tn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:50:26 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39081 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3DbA-0006BB-K1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:50:20 -0400 Received: from vms173015pub.verizon.net ([206.46.173.15]:52720) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3Db9-0006Zs-Og for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:50:20 -0400 Received: from gamaville.dokosmarshall.org ([173.76.32.106]) by vms173015.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPA id <0KS800BGJMWQFXO2@vms173015.mailsrvcs.net> for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:48:27 -0500 (CDT) In-reply-to: Message from andrea Crotti of "Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:05:07 -0000." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: andrea Crotti Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org andrea Crotti wrote: > Carsten Dominik gmail.com> writes: > > On Oct 28, 2009, at 3:16 PM, andrea Crotti wrote: > > ... > > > In the latex version they're not exported for some reasons... > > > > That is correct, we have not implemented keeping all line breaks in > > LaTeX. > > Too hard, unfortunately. > > I see.. > But would not be enough to do a simple replace > \n -> \newline from the org file to the latex source file? > No - it's much more complicated than that, partly because bare newlines in LaTeX are completely ignored (except that two newlines in a row signal end of paragraph - assuming of course that you are in paragraph mode...), partly because the constructs that try to emulate newline behavior (\\, \linebreak, \newline) are very context-dependent. For a flavor of some of the complications, see this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/17333 particularly Bastien's summary of a reply that Sebastien Vauban got in the fr.comp.text.tex newsgroup. Even that, complicated as it is, is not complete. Nick