Re: Differences html/pdf

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Oct 28, 2009, at 11:23 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:

> Bastien <bastienguerry@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>> In the latex version they're not exported for some reasons...
>>>
>>> That is correct, we have not implemented keeping all line breaks in
>>> LaTeX.
>>
>> I've searched around a bit, and to my big surprise, I cannot find a
>> LaTeX package preserving line breaks.  I understand such a function
>> doesn't come along nicely with the general LaTeX philosophy, but it
>> should be possible after all...
>>
>> Did anyone already tried to find such a package ?
>>
>
> Not a package, but there is \obeylines (plain TeX) that will
> preserve line breaks - e.g. Knuth[1] suggests that it be used for
> typesetting poetry:
>
> {\obeylines\smallskip
> Roses are red,
> \quad Violets are blue;
> Rhymes can be typeset
> \quad with boxes and glue.
> \smallskip}
>
> It apparently works by pretending that the newline is a \par token.

OK, this is pretty good, and I have added it to be inserted
as a consequence of setting org-export-preserve-breaks.  But I
believe in complex documents there might be problems, so I would
be interested in test results.  Only then we will decide if this
should stay in.

- Carsten