Re: Line breaks and brackets in LaTeX export

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

>>> I still believe that
>>>
>>>       something\\[0pt]%__ORG_EXPORT__
>>>
>>> is quite safe to remove (depending on the following character) and
>>> unlikely harmful if remained for some reason.
>> 
>> What about the side effect you mentioned in a previous email?
>> 
>>>                TeX reads
>>>
>>>                "a% comment
>>>                   b"
>>>
>>>                as "ab", dropping newline and starting spaces.
>
> Unlike in Org, in TeX "a\\b" still contains a line break. Besides exotic 
> packages and user setups it should just work. After all, during normal 
> operation all "%__ORG_EXPORT__" should be stripped by a filter. They are 
> just marks where a decision is necessary whether to retain "[0pt]" or to 
> remove it.

Thanks for the clarification.

So, we can

1. Change org-latex-line-break-safe to "\\\\[0pt]%__ORG_EXPORT__",
   making it unique to distinguish Org-generated line breaks.
2. Establish a regexp criterion when it is safe to strip
   "[0pt]%__ORG_EXPORT__" from the page break (I am still unsure what
   will be the most reliable criteria here). If not safe, we just strip
   the "%__ORG_EXPORT__" part.
3. Write a filter that replaces the above from final output.
   Note: If we go __ORG_EXPORT__ way, it might be safe to leave the
   filter on by default as long as we can find a really robust criteria
   on when it is safe to drop [0pt] part.

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