Thank you all

"I think `org-export-preserve-breaks' is the option you want. Try setting it in a single buffer with #+OPTIONS:\n:nil and see what happens..."

that sounds interesting, but i couldn't understand how to use it (again im still an org novice:) )
do i stick this line at the start:
#+OPTIONS:\n:nil

is that ^^ syntax correct?

best
Z


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:55:12AM +0200, Xebar Saram wrote:
>
> I'm trying to write a simple guidebook for my students in a GIS course.
> Everything works great apart for the life of me i cant get the hang of
> formatting and specifically how to insert (automatically?) line breaks so
> that its discrete lines and not a paragraph. i think one can use '\\' to
> indicate a line break but since its a guidebook "form" there are almost no
> paragraphs and most line are 1 liners, so it seems to me crazy to go over
> hundred lines of text and attach a \\ at the end. What am i missing here?
>
> i hope i made sense :) any help or documentation links would be really
> appreciated!
>
> I'm attaching a short example of my org file, note that where i want single
> lines i add a empty space between lines but still in the exporter it
> creates a paragraph out of these lines
>

I think you are better off trying to do this with a specialised LaTeX
class.  A quick search led me to this TeX.SX question:
<http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3852>.  You could also try using lists,
just disable the bullets with an option in an #+attr_latex line.


GL,

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