Re: [O] Export as ASCII whilst respecting current fill column

[Charles Berry]

Miguel Guedes <miguel.a.guedes <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Using org-mode version 7.93f, when exporting to ASCII it doesn't respect
> the current fill column. Can this be enforced?
>

Miguel,

Upgrade to current org-mode (version 8.2.6) before you do anything else.

Then modify `org-ascii-text-width' to suit your needs.

,----
| 
| org-ascii-text-width is a variable defined in `ox-ascii.el'.
| Its value is 72
| 
|   Automatically becomes buffer-local when set.
| 
| Documentation:
| Maximum width of exported text.
| This number includes margin size, as set in
| `org-ascii-global-margin'.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

 
> Also, I've noticed that org doesn't remove verbatim tags (=verbatim=)
> but removes BEGIN_EXAMPLE blocks and presumably other BEGIN_xxx blocks;
> is this by design?
> 
> 


Same deal - upgrade. Then =xyz= becomes `xyz' on export.

HTH,

Chuck