David Rogers <davidandrewrog...@gmail.com> writes: >> David Rogers <davidandrewrog...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> My plain-text notes, however, often contain single newlines, which I'd >>> like to retain. The new ASCII exporter converts them to spaces. If I put >>> double newlines in the original, then the exporter doesn't convert >>> anything, and leaves them double. I'm glad to format my originals in any >>> way that works - my aim is only to get single newlines into the finished >>> export. Is there an easy way to do that? >> >> IIUC, you want line breaks. I.e: >> >> Some line \\ >> Some other line. > > Exporting the double backslash adds an extra blank line, which I don't > want.
You have to update Org. I fixed it yesterday (shortly before answering your message) >> If you want a line break on every line, use #+OPTIONS: \n:t > > This gave me exactly what I was looking for, thank you. My line breaks are > preserved, but no new ones are added. > > (The old ASCII exporter preserved line breaks, without using any OPTIONS.) The old ASCII exporter didn't format paragraphs properly. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
