Re: [O] Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Samuel Wales <address@hidden> writes:

> verse block?

Maybe, except that puts it into monospaced font, and I'd have to wrap
the whole document in a verse block...

> On 3/4/18, Eric Abrahamsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just discovered that a paragraph disappeared from a subtree I was
>> exporting, I guess because the paragraph consists of just a number
>> followed by a full stop, and was interpreted as a list item. I'm
>> translating subtitles, and the dialogue went:
>>
>> #+begin_src org
>> There are no taxis, but I've got a car.
>>
>> How much to Dongying?
>>
>> 300.
>>
>> We can be there 10am tomorrow.
>> #+end_src
>>
>> I'm not surprised that "300." got interpreted as a list item, but I
>> wonder if there's a way to protect against it being removed altogether.
>> I suppose it might be nice if a single list item with no content would
>> be interpreted as a paragraph, but that probably opens the door to all
>> kinds of weird edge cases. If there were just a way to escape it...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>