From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: how to export to HTML keeping the whitespaces Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 10:35:24 +0100 Message-ID: <8761dumm1v.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> References: <87oaroussa.fsf@gmail.com> <87mw78w3lx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87fvd0c8mb.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48424) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xvjr6-0000kx-R1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:34:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xvjqu-00037A-Eu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:34:48 -0500 Received: from relay6-d.mail.gandi.net ([2001:4b98:c:538::198]:44992) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xvjqu-00036l-9U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:34:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87fvd0c8mb.fsf@gmail.com> (jenia ivlev's message of "Sun, 30 Nov 2014 23:11:08 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: "jenia.ivlev" Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hello, jenia.ivlev@gmail.com (jenia.ivlev) writes: > Eric Abrahamsen writes: > >> jenia.ivlev@gmail.com (jenia.ivlev) writes: >> >>> Hello: >>> >>> I want to export to HTML and keep the white spaces. >>> Normally, I have to do skip a line (two newline characters) or use >>> #+begin_verse... #+end_verse. >>> Which is not optimal. The two new lines take up too much space, and the >>> begin/end verse don't export in the same to way to HTML as it does to >>> text. >>> To HTML it keep the indentation corresponding to its location in the >>> tree, and to text it has a constant indentation (indentation it gives to >>> verse i think). >>> So what is the proper way to do this? How do I instruct org-export to >>> keep the whitespaces? >>> >>> Thanks very much in advnace for your time and kind help. >> >> Take a look at the docstring for the org-export-preserve-breaks >> variable. That ought to do it, and you can set it per-file in the export >> options. >> >> Eric > > > Thanks. > I set (org-export-preserve-breaks t) in .emacs file and it does preserve > the breaks, but not the white spaces: it doesnt indent depending on the > nesting in the org-tree, and it doesnt indent if I press > . The text is shown to the left mode of the > screen. > > Is there a way to change that? You can try (defun my-html-nobreak-space-filter (text backend info) (and (org-export-derived-backend-p backend 'html) (replace-regexp-in-string " " " " text))) (add-to-list 'org-export-filter-plain-text-functions #'my-html-nobreak-space-filter) Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou