Re: [patch] ox-latex.el: fix blank lines behavior in verse block

[Ihor Radchenko]

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@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.

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