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Esben Stien <b0ef@esben-stien.name> writes:

> Rick Frankel <rick@rickster.com> writes:
>
>> You have (at least ;) two choices in org: example blocks or verse
>> block.
>
> How about a third choice, without blocks?
>
> There's no underlying reason why text that is on separate lines should
> be treated as text on one line.
>
> I cannot create "blocks" every time I take a random note of something
> inside a heading. They are on separate lines inside the heading, so it
> doesn't make sense that they should be on the same line in an export of
> a heading. 
>
> I need a way to have html export treat these lines of text as lines of
> text, not a single paragraph and I need it to do this without having me
> mark it a block.

You can do it with the preserve-breaks export option set to t. Either
"\n:t" in the #+OPTIONS line, or permanently by setting
org-export-preserve-breaks to t.

E