Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, > > Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > >> It seems like enough of org's export formats have the concept of page >> breaks that a generic syntax might be warranted -- I'm finding myself >> doing lots of exporting to multiple formats. What do people think of >> that? Emacs already has a convention of using ascii 12 as a page >> delimiter (though control characters in the buffer look ugly), or we >> could introduce something like #+PAGEBREAK, or perhaps both. >> >> If this seems desirable, I'll take a stab at a patch. > > Thank you for the offer. Though, I don't think it's worth implementing > it. > > For navigation, Org has better tools than page break jumping. So, it > would only be related to export. Even in that case, adding a keyword > (#+PAGEBREAK, but that would be some irregular syntax since there's no > value attached) for such a simple thing is hardly a benefit: > > #+latex: \newline > > Sure, when exporting to multiple formats, it can save a line or two. > Nothing earth-shaking here.
Fair enough: you're right it's only good for export, and even then only really useful for multiple formats. On the other hand, the ^L character is just sitting there, begging to be handled...