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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: generic page breaks for export?
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:45:25 +0800
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Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Thank you for the offer. Though, I don't think it's worth implementing
> it.
>
> For navigation, Org has better tools than page break jumping. So, it
> would only be related to export. Even in that case, adding a keyword
> (#+PAGEBREAK, but that would be some irregular syntax since there's no
> value attached) for such a simple thing is hardly a benefit:
>
>   #+latex: \newline
>
> Sure, when exporting to multiple formats, it can save a line or two.
> Nothing earth-shaking here.

Fair enough: you're right it's only good for export, and even then only
really useful for multiple formats. On the other hand, the ^L character
is just sitting there, begging to be handled...