Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes: > 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)
Thank you! You (and many who work on Org) have this very nice habit - when you see that something in Org is broken, you mostly just go and fix it. I appreciate the work that all of you do. > >>> 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. So now I know about #+OPTIONS: \n:t , and also the new exporter should just do it correctly anyway, since you fixed it? Perfect. Thanks again for your help. -- David
