From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: vertical space
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:16:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a9ecd0rn.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ+TeofB2RjAp=Mq2kO0zMH++A-M45yzsPEEsYU0qbqJ5Knxaw@mail.gmail.com> (Rustom Mody's message of "Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:14:55 +0530")
Hello,
Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
>> Why exactly the last one is parsed as a literal string and not as a line
>> break, I don't know. Nicolas will probably explain all. The only thing I
>> can say is that if there is something other than whitespace on the line
>> before the \\, it gets parsed as a line break; if there is only
>> whitespace (or nothing), it gets parsed as a string. That's probably a
>> rough description and not quite right in all particulars, but I hope
>> it's close enough.
>
>
> So the question remains: How to get generic, consistent vertical
> space?
You can try a verse environment. There is an implicit line break at the
end of each line, indentation and vertical space are preserved.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-31 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-31 4:17 vertical space Rustom Mody
2014-01-31 5:48 ` Nick Dokos
2014-01-31 8:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-01-31 6:44 ` Rustom Mody
2014-01-31 8:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
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2016-03-04 14:19 Vertical space Johann Spies
2016-03-04 14:25 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-04 15:06 ` Johann Spies
2016-03-04 15:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
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