a more inteligant way of signaling the exporter to start a new line than "\\"?

a more inteligant way of signaling the exporter to start a new line than "\\"?

[Xebar Saram]

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Hi

This maybe a really stupid neewb question, but when im writing my slides
and course homework in org and export to reveal html, pdf etc i always get
all lines stitched together and the only way i managed to get over this is
use a "\\" sign at the end of EACH line. this is really cumbersome. I
wonder how you more experienced guys deal with this? am i missing
something? cant the exporter just use emacs lines as lines? why are they
getting joined during export?

for example this section

*** Basic data types in R
Decimals values like 4.5 are called numerics
Natural numbers like 4 are called integers. Integers are also numerics

appears like this in export



Decimals values like 4.5 are called numerics.Natural numbers like 4 are
called integers. Integers are also numerics.

the only way to deal with it is to end every line with \\

*** Basic data types in R
Decimals values like 4.5 are called numerics.\\
Natural numbers like 4 are called integers. Integers are also numerics.\\
Boolean values (TRUE or FALSE) are called logical (TRUE can be abbreviated
to T and FALSE to F).\\
Text (or string) values are called characters.\\


thanks so much in advance

Z

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Re: a more inteligant way of signaling the exporter to start a new line than "\\"?

[Eric S Fraga]

On Monday, 19 Oct 2015 at 16:10, Xebar Saram wrote:
> Hi
>
> This maybe a really stupid neewb question, but when im writing my slides
> and course homework in org and export to reveal html, pdf etc i always get
> all lines stitched together and the only way i managed to get over this is
> use a "\\" sign at the end of EACH line. this is really cumbersome. I
> wonder how you more experienced guys deal with this? am i missing
> something? cant the exporter just use emacs lines as lines? why are they
> getting joined during export?

Essentially you want each line to be a separate "paragraph" so simply
leave a blank line in between:

#+begin_src org
  ,*** Basic data types in R
  Decimals values like 4.5 are called numerics

  Natural numbers like 4 are called integers. Integers are also numerics
#+end_src

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.5.1, Org release_8.3beta-1229-ge900eb

Re: a more inteligant way of signaling the exporter to start a new line than "\\"?

[Xebar Saram]

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Thanks so much Eric

that helped me alot :)

appreciate it

Z

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Monday, 19 Oct 2015 at 16:10, Xebar Saram wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > This maybe a really stupid neewb question, but when im writing my slides
> > and course homework in org and export to reveal html, pdf etc i always
> get
> > all lines stitched together and the only way i managed to get over this
> is
> > use a "\\" sign at the end of EACH line. this is really cumbersome. I
> > wonder how you more experienced guys deal with this? am i missing
> > something? cant the exporter just use emacs lines as lines? why are they
> > getting joined during export?
>
> Essentially you want each line to be a separate "paragraph" so simply
> leave a blank line in between:
>
> #+begin_src org
>   ,*** Basic data types in R
>   Decimals values like 4.5 are called numerics
>
>   Natural numbers like 4 are called integers. Integers are also numerics
> #+end_src
>
> --
> : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.5.1, Org release_8.3beta-1229-ge900eb
>

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Re: a more inteligant way of signaling the exporter to start a new line than "\\"?

[Eric S Fraga]

On Monday, 19 Oct 2015 at 17:05, Xebar Saram wrote:
> Thanks so much Eric
>
> that helped me alot :)

Glad I could help.

I had meant to add that what you probably wanted, in any case, was to
use lists if the text was intended for slides, as in:

#+begin_src org
  ,*** Basic data types in R
  - Decimals values like 4.5 are called numerics
  - Natural numbers like 4 are called integers. Integers are also numerics
#+end_src

As each list entry starts a new paragraph, you don't need the blank line
between them.  A list may look better than separate lines alone.
-- 
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.5.1, Org release_8.3beta-1229-ge900eb

Re: a more inteligant way of signaling the exporter to start a new line than "\\"?

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks so much Eric
>
> that helped me alot :)
>
> appreciate it

And, if the time ever comes that you really do want to preserve line
breaks for some reason, you can set the org-export-preserve-breaks
variable to t, or use the \n:nil OPTIONS line.

>
> Z
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
> wrote:
>
>
>     On Monday, 19 Oct 2015 at 16:10, Xebar Saram wrote:
>     > Hi
>     >
>     > This maybe a really stupid neewb question, but when im writing
>     my slides
>     > and course homework in org and export to reveal html, pdf etc i
>     always get
>     > all lines stitched together and the only way i managed to get
>     over this is
>     > use a "\\" sign at the end of EACH line. this is really
>     cumbersome. I
>     > wonder how you more experienced guys deal with this? am i
>     missing
>     > something? cant the exporter just use emacs lines as lines? why
>     are they
>     > getting joined during export?
>
>     Essentially you want each line to be a separate "paragraph" so
>     simply
>     leave a blank line in between:
>
>     #+begin_src org
>     ,*** Basic data types in R
>     Decimals values like 4.5 are called numerics
>
>     Natural numbers like 4 are called integers. Integers are also
>     numerics
>     #+end_src
>
>     --
>     : Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.5.1, Org
>     release_8.3beta-1229-ge900eb