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:

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#+TITLE: First Line of Title // Second Line of Title

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Above works for only latex > pdf exports.

HTML export of above keeps the `//` characters verbatim.

So I did the below:

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#+MACRO: NEWLINE @@latex:\\@@ @@html:<br>@@

#+TITLE: First Line of Title {{{NEWLINE}}} Second Line of Title

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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:

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Some text in org file on first line //

Some text in org file on second line //

Some text in org file on third line

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.. then the pdf, html, ascii exports interpret `//` as a newline character.

For consistency, now I use:

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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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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:

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#+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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