Re: Verse block and separations (was: [bug] `org-latex-line-break-safe' breaks the export of verse blocks to LaTeX)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Yes, you're right: that \vspace is the normal behavior of the block when
> exporting to LaTeX, and it is certainly not quite correct. In LaTeX,
> both the out-of-the-box verse environment and the one provided by the
> 'verse' package (which, typographically speaking, is the correct way to
> represent verses in LaTeX) do not add a \vspace between stanzas. In the
> LaTeX input the separation between stanzas is expressed by an (at least)
> empty line. In fact, that space can be controlled by the verse package
> with the stanzaskip \length. I remember that I commented on this anomaly
> here on the list, a long time ago, but I can't find the original
> message...

I checked git log and the current approach for verse export dates back
to initial versions of ox-latex. I am pretty sure that it should be
improved.

> In my init I have redefined the verse block like this, so that there is
> a white line between stanzas, not \vspace (I have also added some things
> for the verse package, so that the numbering of verses is not broken).
> So your example would produce a white line under \begin{verse}, not the
> current \vspace, which would be irrelevant to LaTeX. But this is only a
> hack:

Could you provide a patch?

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