From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
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 16:25:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eh7daezu.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (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,
I've never used this, but 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...
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-22 8:25 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
2013-10-22 8:25 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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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