hi again,
i had a look at the content.xml file in each case.
with org-export-preserve-breaks disabled, whitespace is exported (correctly) like so:
<text:line-break/>
<text:s text:c="5"/>text here indented 5 spaces.<text:line-break/>
with the option enabled, the the spaces are directly transferred to the file:
<text:line-break/> text printed after 5 spaces, which are not properly preserved in the org file.<text:line-break/>
regards,
m
On 23/11/2020 19:19, mousebot wrote:
> hi org,
>
> i use verse blocks to export to odt in a way that preserves whitespace. if i enable org-export-preserve-breaks, whitespace in verse blocks is not preserved: any spaces used to indent text from the left margin are reduced to a single space. is this intended behavior? i had hoped to be able to use both features in my document.
>
> example:
>
> #+begin_verse
> here you are,
> doing your
> darned
> best
> to export
> #+end_verse
>
> will export as
>
> here you are
> doing your
> darned
> best
> to export
>
> i tested this by loading emacs -Q, evaluating (setq org-export-preserve-breaks t), then using the normal org export dispatch, with no template.
>
> best
> m
>