Re: [Orgmode] Re: How to get \\ in title or author?

[Bastien]

Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:

>> Maybe \linebreak is less context-sensitive than \newline, which would mean
>> that there are more contexts (like \title and \author) in which it behaves
>> as expected. Just a guess.
>
> I've asked the question on FCTT (fr.comp.text.tex) and already got an answer
> of Maneul Pegourie-Gonnard (who is expert on that matter):
>
> http://groups.google.fr/group/fr.comp.text.tex/browse_thread/thread/1b1af2e5291270e2#
>
> Sorry (for the others), it's in French.

Merci!   Here is a summary:

- none of \\ \linebreak or \newline change a paragraph, they just start
  a new line

- with \linebreak, LaTeX tries to justify the resulting text, not with
  \newline

- \linebreak can take an argument to let LaTeX decides whether the line
  should be broken or not.  The default \linebreak always triggers a
  break, but \linebreak[2] will let LaTeX decides depending on whether
  the result is acceptable or not, and \linebreak[0] prevents any line
  break...

- \\ can take two arguments: one star and one digit.  The star prevents
  the line break to trigger a page break, and the digit lets you add a
  vertical space between the two lines.

  In environments like \flushleft \flushright \centering \raggedleft
  \raggedright, \\ doesn't have its normal definition (whereas \newline
  behaves normally).

- \newline is the version of \\ with no argument

HTH,

-- 
 Bastien