Re: trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all
>
> i decided to dive into the deep water and get rid of M$ word once and
> for all. I'm still an org novice but since i love org i choose org
> for the task.
>
> 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?


Hi there,

I've never used this, but I think `org-export-preserve-breaks' is the
option you want. Try setting it in a single buffer with #+OPTIONS:
\n:nil and see what happens...

Eric