On 17-Mar-2015, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > Ben Finney writes: > > > The "\emsp" should be space characters (of some kind; either > > U+0020 SPC or U+2003 EM SPACE) with correct alignment for the > > character width. Displaying literal "\emsp" is a regression and > > should not happen. > > This is not a regression. This change favors a correct export over > a correct display. The behaviour described – displaying “\emsp” instead of space characters – is a regression. That's what is being reported in this bug. > Having some space character is not desirable as it would just move > the problem the other way around (i.e., indentation would not appear > during export) So the U+2003 EM SPACE character should be translated *during export*, and not be literally in the displayed text. > In a nutshell, the current situation is not perfect, but we have yet > to find a proper character to preserve both indentation during > export and readability. IS the above suggestion an acceptable solution? > Note that this is not LaTeX-specific markup. This is called an entity, > and is correctly exported in various back-ends. But not for display, which is the bug to be fixed here. Thanks for working on Org mode. -- \ “The future always arrives too fast, and in the wrong order.” | `\ —Alvin Toffler | _o__) | Ben Finney