From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Abrahamsen Subject: generic page breaks for export? Date: Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:47:56 +0800 Message-ID: <87hajjxdib.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41269) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UOfYd-0004CB-17 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:42:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UOfYZ-0004ub-ML for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:42:14 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53422) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UOfYZ-0004uO-Fy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 06 Apr 2013 22:42:11 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UOfYV-0007it-NT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:42:07 +0200 Received: from 114.250.135.46 ([114.250.135.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:42:07 +0200 Received: from eric by 114.250.135.46 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Apr 2013 04:42:07 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org It seems like enough of org's export formats have the concept of page breaks that a generic syntax might be warranted -- I'm finding myself doing lots of exporting to multiple formats. What do people think of that? Emacs already has a convention of using ascii 12 as a page delimiter (though control characters in the buffer look ugly), or we could introduce something like #+PAGEBREAK, or perhaps both. If this seems desirable, I'll take a stab at a patch. Eric