I tried something like this: #+FREE_FLOW U n res train ed text #+FREE_FLOW and while this did admittedly came somewhat closer to what I desire by exporting the escaped characters and new lines as being a little smaller than those which were typed normally. This, however, still wasn't a full free text formatting. On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 6:18 PM, GRAWeeLD wrote: > Hello Org-Mode community, > > I am rather new to Org-mode itself and have still a lot to read about in > the official manual, but I cannot seem to find a method for specifying > document specific behaviour in Org-Mode. > > For example, if I want all line breaks to be exported exactly with the > same indentation as I have for them in my specific document, there seems to > be no way to do this. > > Sure, I can use \\ to create a new line break, and that works great, but > if I indent my text differently, > > for > example > like > > > a straircase > > this indentation will not be preserved as such upon PDF export. > > Now, I found that AsciiDoc solved this somewhat by allowing the user to > insert > > [/hardbreaks] > > format your text o d d l y > > > [hardbreaks/] > > at the beginning of a particular section within a document, and if this is inserted, then everything would be rendered as it is seen on screen upon export as well. > > Granted, I am not suggesting that this preservation should be Org-Mode's default behaviour, not at all. I want only certain portions of my book to be formatted in this odd way, the rest should be perfectly precisely aligned, as is the case at this very time. > > > Thank you for your time and considerations towards this proposal. > >