Bastien <bastiengue...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgw...@spammotel.com> 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
>
Bastien,
Thanks for the summary. There is still one problem, I think, with #+AUTHOR:
\author{one \\ two}
and
\author{one \linebreak two}
behave differently (the \linebreak has no effect), so if one wants the
first behavior, the exporter's penchant to change \\ to
\\textbackslash{} will not allow it. I'm not sure why \title and \author
behave differently: I guess it's because \author is expanded inside a
\tabular, whereas \title is not.
Thanks,
Nick
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