Re: exporting to latex and docx not honouring carriage returns to tabbing

[Robert Klein <roklein@roklein.de>]

On Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:54:39 +0100
Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday,  8 Oct 2018 at 10:56, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > My finished output in the pdf will have every line indented/tabbed
> > to 4 spaces and have a carriage-return at the end of each
> > paragraph, with no spacings in between paragraphs.
> >
> > I can get it how I want in org-mode, but when its exported to latex
> > and converted into a pdf file, the whole section comes out in one
> > block of text!  
> 
> Both LaTeX and org define new paragraphs by a blank line.   Spaces at
> the start of a line only have meaning, in org, if the lines are part
> of a list (and never mean anything in LaTeX).
> 
> I am not sure exactly what you want to achieve so it is difficult to
> suggest anything.  Try separating your paragraphs with empty lines to
> see how much closer this gets you to what you want.
> 

What Eric says.

Then try to add to the org-file a line

#+LaTeX_Header: \parskip=0pt

so the spacing between paragraphs is 0.  Then add

#+LaTeX_Header: \parindent=0pt

so the first line of a paragraph isn't indented.

If you want to get /all/ the text indented by “4 spaces”, put a line

#+LaTeX: \setlength{\leftskip}{2em}

at the top of your document.


If you want only parts indented, put the line before the beginning of
the part to be indented and put this line after it:

#+LaTeX: \setlength{\leftskip}{0em}


Does this help?

Best regards
Robert