Thank you all "I think `org-export-preserve-breaks' is the option you want. Try setting it in a single buffer with #+OPTIONS:\n:nil and see what happens..."
that sounds interesting, but i couldn't understand how to use it (again im still an org novice:) ) do i stick this line at the start: #+OPTIONS:\n:nil is that ^^ syntax correct? best Z On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:55:12AM +0200, Xebar Saram wrote: > > > > I'm trying to write a simple guidebook for my students in a GIS course. > > Everything works great apart for the life of me i cant get the hang of > > formatting and specifically how to insert (automatically?) line breaks so > > that its discrete lines and not a paragraph. i think one can use '\\' to > > indicate a line break but since its a guidebook "form" there are almost > no > > paragraphs and most line are 1 liners, so it seems to me crazy to go over > > hundred lines of text and attach a \\ at the end. What am i missing here? > > > > i hope i made sense :) any help or documentation links would be really > > appreciated! > > > > I'm attaching a short example of my org file, note that where i want > single > > lines i add a empty space between lines but still in the exporter it > > creates a paragraph out of these lines > > > > I think you are better off trying to do this with a specialised LaTeX > class. A quick search led me to this TeX.SX question: > <http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/3852>. You could also try using lists, > just disable the bullets with an option in an #+attr_latex line. > > > GL, > > -- > Suvayu > > Open source is the future. It sets us free. > >
