From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suvayu Ali Subject: Re: trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:39:43 +0200 Message-ID: <20131022093943.GX6656@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32863) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYYRO-0005VY-Bp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:40:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYYRI-0002Sr-PM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:39:54 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-x231.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::231]:50382) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VYYRI-0002Sb-G6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 05:39:48 -0400 Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id x12so7940302wgg.16 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:39:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kuru.dyndns-at-home.com (sd44012d5.adsl.online.nl. [212.64.18.213]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ey4sm4541352wic.11.2013.10.22.02.39.45 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 22 Oct 2013 02:39:46 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:55:12AM +0200, Xebar Saram wrote: > > 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? > > i hope i made sense :) any help or documentation links would be really > appreciated! > > I'm attaching a short example of my org file, note that where i want single > lines i add a empty space between lines but still in the exporter it > creates a paragraph out of these lines > I think you are better off trying to do this with a specialised LaTeX class. A quick search led me to this TeX.SX question: . You could also try using lists, just disable the bullets with an option in an #+attr_latex line. GL, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.