Dear list, I am creating training material for the education of German law students, which usually consists of a case story on one or two pages, followed by a page break after which a proposal for resolving the case is provided. The structure is like this because usually I provide the case story before the meeting, where I work out a solution with the students, and afterwards I want to provide them with complete material, while still having everything contained in one file.
With org, I can easily export to LaTeX and thereby to PDF, and it works quite nicely. However, for the page break I always need to write a literal \newpage into the document, which does work, but only in LaTeX. Since I am the only one using org/LaTeX at my chair, I have to convert these documents to DOCX (using the ODT exporter) when a collegue wants an editable version of them. As a LaTeX command, \newpage does not work when exporting to ODT. I thus open the exported document manually after the export and insert the page break using LibreOffice. To ease this process, I would like to request that the ASCII control character U+000C FORM FEED (displayed by emacs as ^L and also known as `\f' in C string notation) is recognised by exporters and translated to the corresponding page break command, that is, in LaTeX \newpage and in ODT to the XML that makes LibreOffice start a new page. For HTML, it could be exported as <div style="clear: both; page-break-after: always"/></div> or similar, and for exporters which have no notion of pages, it could just be copied over to the exported document as-is. -MG -- Dipl.-Jur. M. Gülker | https://mg.guelker.eu | PGP: Siehe Webseite Passau, Deutschland | kont...@guelker.eu | O<
