Re: [O] [PATCH] org.el: Preserve indentation of manually indented lines in example blocks.

[Valentin Wüstholz]

Hi Nicolas.


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I would love to hear how other people feel about this.
>
> Same here. I don't use such blocks very often after all.
>
> Meanwhile, could you please reformat a bit your patch (no more than 80
> columns, no parents on their own line), add a commit message followed
> by TINYCHANGE (unless you have signed FSF papers already) and use git
> format-patch for the output?


Sure. I have attached the output.


>>> To sum it up, in the first case, you only loose the ability to indent
>>> the whole buffer in one go (which isn't as bad as it sounds, since you
>>> can achieve that differently).
>>
>> How else would you be able to achieve that?
>
> You may still indent regions without examples blocks, you can also
> indent automatically each line you're writing.


True, but that gets quite tedious once you have more than two or three
blocks in your file.


>> I might be wrong, but I believe that at least in LaTeX indentation in
>> verse blocks is not taken into account. This seems reasonable since
>> they are not typeset in a monospaced font.
>
> Actually indentation is partially taken into account. Some \hspace*{1cm}
> are added. On the other hand, HTML enforces indentation with the help of
> &nbsp;.


Your right, it seems that org-mode somehow deals with it, even though
LaTeX doesn't quite support it natively.

Best regards,

Valentin

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