From: David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [new exporter] ASCII export, single newline
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:17:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86hanpln9t.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d2yep0zt.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:53:10 +0100")
Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
> David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> My plain-text notes, however, often contain single newlines, which I'd
>>>> like to retain. The new ASCII exporter converts them to spaces. If I put
>>>> double newlines in the original, then the exporter doesn't convert
>>>> anything, and leaves them double. I'm glad to format my originals in any
>>>> way that works - my aim is only to get single newlines into the finished
>>>> export. Is there an easy way to do that?
>>>
>>> IIUC, you want line breaks. I.e:
>>>
>>> Some line \\
>>> Some other line.
>>
>> Exporting the double backslash adds an extra blank line, which I don't
>> want.
>
> You have to update Org. I fixed it yesterday (shortly before answering
> your message)
Thank you! You (and many who work on Org) have this very nice habit -
when you see that something in Org is broken, you mostly just go and fix
it. I appreciate the work that all of you do.
>
>>> If you want a line break on every line, use #+OPTIONS: \n:t
>>
>> This gave me exactly what I was looking for, thank you. My line breaks are
>> preserved, but no new ones are added.
>>
>> (The old ASCII exporter preserved line breaks, without using any OPTIONS.)
>
> The old ASCII exporter didn't format paragraphs properly.
So now I know about #+OPTIONS: \n:t , and also the new exporter should
just do it correctly anyway, since you fixed it? Perfect. Thanks again
for your help.
--
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-13 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-12 18:26 [new exporter] ASCII export, single newline David Rogers
2012-12-12 22:09 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-12-12 23:21 ` David Rogers
2012-12-13 7:30 ` David Rogers
2012-12-13 12:53 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-12-13 20:17 ` David Rogers [this message]
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