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

[Diego Zamboni]

Hi Eric,

I found out that adding any non-space character after the dot prevents org from interpreting it as a list. In particular, adding a non-breaking-space entity at the end of the line works, like this: "300.\nbsp"

Maybe other punctuations would also work and make sense in the context of your document- see `org-entities-help` for the full list of available entities.

--Diego

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:07 PM, 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