Re: Specifying document-specific settings: line breaks and unusual spacing

[GRAWeeLD <graweeld@gmail.com>]

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AsciiDoc also used the [literal] style for inordinately formatted blocks of
text. Maybe something like #+UNFORMATTED_TEXT could be an OrgMode property
which handles this. Or maybe OrgMOde already has something to handle
free-floating text and I just missed it?

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 7:13 PM, GRAWeeLD <graweeld@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <graweeld@gmail.com> 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.
>>
>>
>

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