Re: keep newlines on pdf export

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Dec 16, 2009, at 5:05 AM, Eraldo Helal wrote:

> Hi Carsten
>
>> I am always much more interested in thinking about a solution
>> if I am not just presented with an abstract wish, but rather
>> with a concrete example where this might be useful.
> First of all I want to thank all of you (again) for this great  
> mailing-list.
> I am a great fan of the idea of writing an org file and being able to
> export it to differnt formats as desired. (ASCII, html, pdf, etc)
> In my case the absence of consistent newlines (as present in html
> export) was not that much of a problem because the document
> (scientific article on complex numbers) does not need to be exported
> to html at all... so I just added "\\" to the end of every line.
> Nontheless I took notice of the problem and wanted to get and give
> some feedback.


Hi Eraldo,

still, an example would have been useful, to generate more ideas.

In the absence of an example, a few more comments/ideas that have
not yet come up (unless I missed them..)

"\\" at the end of a line does also the right thing in HTML
export, i.e. it is converted to <br/>

Other possibilities to preserve line breaks include

1. the #+begin_verse...#+end_verse block
2. A #+begin_example ... #+end_example block
3. Putting the numbers into a table
4. Starting each line with ": " (also makes them end up in an
    example block)

Cheers

- Carsten

>
> Greetings from Austria,
> Eraldo

- Carsten