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From: David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [new exporter] ASCII export, single newline
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:30:08 -0800
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Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> 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.

> 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.)

-- 
David