Re: [O] Do not export single newlines to latex

[James Harkins]

Alexander Baier <alexander.baier <at> mailbox.org> writes:

> I am writing a document for which my main export target is latex.  To
> obtain reasonable diffs wrt version control systems, I use one line
> per sentence in addition to =visual-line-mode= as was mentioned in this
> post last November http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/78332.
> 
> The problem with this is that these newlines get translated to newlines
> in latex aka "\\<newline>".

I use the LaTeX exporter routinely, and I have never seen this behavior. For
instance,

~~~ org input file
* Headline
The first sentence.
The second sentence.
~~~

~~~ LaTeX export (minus preamble)
\begin{document}

\maketitle
\tableofcontents

\section{Headline}
\label{sec-1}
The first sentence.
The second sentence.
% Emacs 23.3.1 (Org mode 8.2.5f)
\end{document}
~~~

I also checked the customization variables in the org-export-latex group,
and I didn't see anything immediately relevant to newline translation.

So I can think of a couple of possibilities:

- You might have some strange configuration lying around somewhere.
(Additional evidence that you're seeing nonstandard behavior is that none of
the .el files in the org distribution contain the string 'newline', let
alone '<newline>'.)

- Or you might be using a newer org than I'm using, in which case you might
be seeing a regression bug. (As far as I know, a single line break in the
input should definitely not translate into "\\<newline>"!!)

> I want the export back end to ignore those
> single newlines and only insert "\\<newline>" into the latex document
> upon encountering two consecutive newlines in my org-mode file.

Two consecutive line breaks in the input should be copied over directly into
the .tex file. It's then up to LaTeX to interpret this -- per its own
standards -- as a paragraph break. Again, "\\<newline>" would be quite
exceptional.

hjh