Re: [O] Enforcing newlines in plain text export

2014-09-27 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi Kaushal, Kaushal kaushal.m...@gmail.com writes: I am requesting a consistent solution. If // at the end of a line inserts newline when exporting in all formats, then it should do the same when used in between a line too for ALL export formats. Example: #+TITLE: Line one // Line two

Re: [O] Enforcing newlines in plain text export

2014-09-27 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, Richard Lawrence richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu writes: Does anyone know why the behavior of \\ is presently restricted to appearing at the end of the line in a paragraph? I certainly can see a good reason for it, although I don't know if it is the historical one. Org syntax is

Re: [O] Enforcing newlines in plain text export

2014-09-27 Thread Kaushal
I needed to have multi line titles exported in all formats consistently and that's when I need to use '\\' mid-line. -- Kaushal Modi On Sep 27, 2014 5:16 PM, Nicolas Goaziou m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr wrote: Hello, Richard Lawrence richard.lawre...@berkeley.edu writes: Does anyone know why the

Re: [O] Enforcing newlines in plain text export

2014-09-27 Thread Alexis
Richard Lawrence writes: Does anyone know why the behavior of \\ is presently restricted to appearing at the end of the line in a paragraph? Does anyone need it to be exported literally when it appears elsewhere? When exporting code listings in any programming language which uses '\' for

Re: [O] Enforcing newlines in plain text export

2014-09-26 Thread Kaushal
The reason I switched to using this {{{NEWLINE}}} macro is that I wanted consistent results wherever I used it for any kind of export. Example: - #+TITLE: First Line of Title // Second Line of Title - Above works for only latex pdf exports. HTML export of above keeps the `//`

Re: [O] Enforcing newlines in plain text export

2014-09-26 Thread Kaushal
Do you need to enforce line breaks *outside of* a paragraph in plain text export? If so, what case are you worried about specifically? I forgot to answer this question.. I need to force line breaks in cases like these - For example, to execute the =example_1= test and run in the

Re: [O] Enforcing newlines in plain text export

2014-09-26 Thread Richard Lawrence
Kaushal kaushal.m...@gmail.com writes: Interesting thing is that `\\` work fine at the end of the lines. Yes, this is the behavior documented in the manual. I need to force line breaks in cases like these - For example, to execute the =example_1= test and run in the {{{NEWLINE}}}

Re: [O] Enforcing newlines in plain text export

2014-09-26 Thread Kaushal
I am requesting a consistent solution. If // at the end of a line inserts newline when exporting in all formats, then it should do the same when used in between a line too for ALL export formats. Example: #+TITLE: Line one // Line two I am simply trying to explain why we need another solution