Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> writes: >> Do you mean that people use extra leading/trailing spaces just to get >> extra vertical space before/after the verse block in _latex_ export? > > No, I don't think people use it for that purpose. I meant that if > someone puts a space before or after the content (which can be usual, > for clarity): > > #+begin_verse > > blah... > > #+end_verse > > that vertical space appears in the export, which shouldn't.
Well. Technically, we already warn users that the blank lines are preserved in the verse blocks: 12.1 Paragraphs =============== Paragraphs are separated by at least one empty line. If you need to enforce a line break within a paragraph, use ‘\\’ at the end of a line. To preserve the line breaks, indentation and blank lines in a region, but otherwise use normal formatting, you can use this construct, which can also be used to format poetry. #+BEGIN_VERSE Great clouds overhead Tiny black birds rise and fall Snow covers Emacs ---AlexSchroeder #+END_VERSE So, I now think that while extra cleanups might be OK for ox-latex, we may not want to ignore empty lines universally in all the verse blocks. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>