On Apr 5, 2011, at 10:15 AM, katepano wrote: > Dear Dominik. > I see your point and it is accepted, of course. I admit, I should write my > email more clearly. Anyway, thanks for your time. > > On the other hand I really would like to see #+OPTIONS: \n:t working, if this > possible and do not cause much frustration.
If you read the threads I have linked to you will see that this is not at all simple. An option like this would always be a dirty hack that forces a backend into a state it was not made for. Using special markup and environments for code, poems, you name it, on the other hand, is perfectly fine. - Carsten > > thanks anyway > > Katepano > > On 04/05/2011 11:04 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote: >> Dear katepano, >> >> as you can see, it has taken 11 emails on a high volume email list >> to get the answer to your simple question. More than 1100 people have >> subscribed to this mailing list, an unknown number of people >> read it on aggregators like gmane. That is a lot of time and energy >> spent unnecessarily. >> >> Please take more care when formulating a question to the list >> and try to give all necessary information from the start. >> Here is an example on how you *could* have formulated your >> initial mail: >> >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Dear Org- mode people, >> >> I am trying to write a poem in Orgmode, but when I am exporting >> the poem to LaTeX or HTML, all the line breaks are lost! I would like >> to export the poem with the line break preserved. >> >> I have studied the manual and have found that >> >> #+OPTIONS: \n:t >> >> might be a way to achieve what I want. But the feature is marked as >> DOES NOT WORK in the manual. Does anyone know why this is the case? >> I have also search for "preserve breaks" in the mailing list archive: >> >> http://search.gmane.org/?query=preserve+breaks&author=&group=gmane.emacs.orgmode&sort=relevance&DEFAULTOP=and&xP=org%09mode >> >> and found a number of threads which match this query, but the results >> have been confusing to me. So I am wondering if someone here could >> enlighten me what the best way is to achieve my goal. >> >> Here is an example Org-file: >> >> #+STARTUP: showall >> #+TITLE: 5-006 Τσιγάρο ατέλειωτο >> #+OPTIONS: H:3 num:nil toc:nil \n:t >> >> *Συνθέτης:* Σωκράτης Μάλαμας >> *Στιχουργός:* Γιώργος Αθανασόπουλος >> *Έτος:* 1993 >> >> #+BEGIN_QUOTE >> Θα περπατήσω μοναχός κι αυτό το βράδυ >> μήπως και βρω της λησμονιάς σου το νερό >> και σε υπόγεια σκοτεινά θα βρω σημάδι >> μ' ένα ποτήρι ως της αυγής τον πανικό >> #+END_QUOTE >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> I guess you would have gotten the right reply immediately. >> >> >> On Apr 4, 2011, at 4:42 PM, katepano wrote: >> >>> what happen to the #+OPTIONS: \n:t ? we need it back please!!! why it does >>> not work???? >>> >>> By the way nobody responded to my message!!! >>> >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg40104.html >>> why? is it a stupid question or it can't be implemented? >> >> That was actually a much better message, and, as Bastien indicates, >> there is no simple answer/solution at this time. >> >> Regards >> >> - Carsten >> >> >>> Regards >>> >>> katepano >>> >> - Carsten >> >> >> >> - Carsten
