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 <grawe...@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 <grawe...@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. >> >> >
