Re: Enforcing newlines in plain text export

[Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>]

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> Do you need to enforce line breaks *outside of* a paragraph in plain
> text export?  If so, what case are you worried about specifically?

I forgot to answer this question.. I need to force line breaks in cases
like these

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For example, to execute the =example_1= test and run in the {{{NEWLINE}}}

=/some/long/path/that/wouldn't/fit/along/with/the/above/line/in/the/same/line=
directory,
do the following..
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In the above example, org-export will not wrap the text between the
verbatim formatting characters "=".
To ensure that the exported formats (html/pdf/ascii) look clean, I have to
force a newline character just before that long string.

Now using "\\" here instead of {{{NEWLINE}}} works but then I have to
ensure that I place the "\\" character at the very end. If they are placed
mid-line then they will be interpreted as newline by latex but simply "\\"
character by html exporter.

For consistency, the {{{NEWLINE}}} approach looks better; hoping that
org-mode will support a special newline character for ascii exports at some
time:

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#+MACRO: NEWLINE @@latex:\\@@ @@html:<br>@@ @@ascii:NEWLINE_CHARACTERS_
FOR_ASCII_EXPORT@@
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Kaushal Modi

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> wrote:

> The reason I switched to using this {{{NEWLINE}}} macro is that I wanted
> consistent results wherever I used it for any kind of export.
>
> Example:
>
> -----
> #+TITLE: First Line of Title // Second Line of Title
> -----
>
> Above works for only latex > pdf exports.
> HTML export of above keeps the `//` characters verbatim.
>
> So I did the below:
>
> -----
> #+MACRO: NEWLINE @@latex:\\@@ @@html:<br>@@
> #+TITLE: First Line of Title {{{NEWLINE}}} Second Line of Title
> -----
>
> The above solution looks clean to me, but now that doesn't work for ascii
> exports as I don't know what to put in between "@@ascii:@@" to get a
> newline in ascii exports.
>
>
> Interesting thing is that `//` work fine at the end of the lines.
> If I have the below:
>
> -----
> Some text in org file on first line //
> Some text in org file on second line //
> Some text in org file on third line
> -----
>
> .. then the pdf, html, ascii exports interpret `//` as a newline character.
>
> For consistency, now I use:
>
> -----
> Some text in org file on first line {{{NEWLINE}}}
> Some text in org file on second line {{{NEWLINE}}}
> Some text in org file on third line
> -----
>
> I am just waiting to know the magic characters for ascii exports that can
> give me newlines by using the above macro. Then I don't have to worry
> whether I am using `//` at the end of the line or in the middle of a line.
>
> The end result would be:
>
> -----
> #+MACRO: NEWLINE @@latex:\\@@ @@html:<br>@@
> @@ascii:NEWLINE_CHARACTERS_FOR_ASCII_EXPORT@@
> #+TITLE: First Line of Title {{{NEWLINE}}} Second Line of Title
> Some text in org file on first line {{{NEWLINE}}}
> Some text in org file on second line {{{NEWLINE}}}
> Some text in org file on third line
> -----
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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> Kaushal Modi
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Richard Lawrence <
> richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Kaushal,
>>
>> I am forwarding your message to the Org mode list; you only sent it to
>> me and Nicolas...
>>
>> Kaushal <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I came across
>> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2014-09/msg00466.html
>> > through this emacs SE page:
>> >
>> http://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/255/new-line-in-title-of-an-org-mode-exported-html-document
>> >
>> > The question I had asked on stackexchange was: How to export a mid-line
>> > newline consistently in all formats.
>>
>> In paragraphs, all you need to do is end a line with "\\" to force a
>> line break.  This works for LaTeX, HTML, and plain text export, at least.
>>
>> This doesn't work in other kinds of syntax, like headlines, but you may
>> not need it there.
>>
>> > But I couldn't figure out how to convey a newline character when
>> exporting
>> > to plain text (ascii).
>> >
>> > I tried,
>> >
>> > #+MACRO: NEWLINE @@latex:\\@@ @@html:<br>@@ @@ascii:\n@@
>> >
>> > But that simply puts out "\n" verbatim in the exported txt file.
>>
>> I don't know the answer to this specific issue---you might need to
>> create a custom export filter---but hopefully you can just use "\\"
>> instead of a macro like this.
>>
>> Do you need to enforce line breaks *outside of* a paragraph in plain
>> text export?  If so, what case are you worried about specifically?
>>
>> Best,
>> Richard
>>
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>
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