Re: keep newlines on pdf export

[Bill Powell <bill@billpowellisalive.com>]

At Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:42:58 -0500,
Nick Dokos wrote:
> 
> Eraldo Helal <eraldo@eraldo.org> wrote:
> 
> > One other reason behind this is that I can not export my document to
> > html anymore after I added "\\" at the end of every line... well I can
> > but it does not look the way I want it to be. =]
> > 
> 
> The \obeylines method should not affect the HTML export.
> 
> Nick

Hi folks,

I also have been using the \obeylines technique. But it seems a bit
crufty. I do lots of work in LaTeX, so I have a sense of the perils
involved in LaTeX linebreaking. Unfortunately, I have zero experience
with elisp, so I can't tackle this (yet).

The problem with the \obeylines hack is that if it's not properly
closed with a final bracket, your file breaks. But how do you keep
this final bracket in place? You can't move headlines around with the
usual reckless abandon, because there's no way (that I know of) to
keep that final bracket locked at the end of your text file. Unless
you want to enter an \obeylines within every headline ...

So I would give a +1 to \n:t giving at least rudimentary linebreak
support for PDF export, rather than silently failing. As someone who
regularly has to export the same file to both HTML and PDF, I would
rather have an option that works 90% of the time and sometimes
requires an arcane LaTeX fix (and is documented as such), than
/always/ have to use an arcane LaTeX fix.

Thanks,
Bill Powell