From: Glyn Millington <glyn.millington@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 09:16:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uxl90v2.fsf@nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAOQHXPpZC_fJ7y4BUrpSuMSS666DGtnvqf4sBkRu5YmWdAoTZg@mail.gmail.com
Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all
>
> i decided to dive into the deep water and get rid of M$ word once and
> for all. I'm still an org novice but since i love org i choose org for
> the task.
>
> 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?
Hi there,
My quick fix for this was to save a macro and then bind it to a key. From
init.el
;;;; Saved macros
;; Saved macro - adds latex end-lines to verse passages
(fset 'versify
[?\C-a ?\C-e ?\\ ?\\ down])
(global-set-key (kbd "s-v") 'versify)
I can fix a lot of lines very quickly with this :-)
atb
Glyn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-22 8:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-22 7:55 trying to write a guidebook for students using org , need help with formating Xebar Saram
2013-10-22 8:16 ` Glyn Millington [this message]
2013-10-22 8:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-22 9:39 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-10-22 12:14 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-23 1:00 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-23 6:11 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-23 8:56 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-23 12:23 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-23 13:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-23 14:23 ` Glyn Millington
2013-10-23 18:19 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-23 22:15 ` Glyn Millington
2013-10-24 5:37 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-10-24 10:43 ` Suvayu Ali
2013-10-24 14:53 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-27 6:49 ` Xebar Saram
2013-10-23 13:32 ` Rick Frankel
2013-10-22 16:42 ` Rick Frankel
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