Hello,

>>>>> Sébastien Vauban writes:

> I'd expect to see all the above passage from the email to be
> uninterpreted. It is not acting that way.

According to the manual, VERSE block only preserves line breaks and
leading white spaces. Otherwise it is _normal_ formatting. Though,
this raises an interesting question about lists.

At the moment, by design, Org doesn't recognize lists inside blocks.
While this is obviously the way to go in SRC EXAMPLE and COMMENT
blocks, it isn't as clear with VERSE, CENTER and QUOTE.

In the case of VERSE, preserving leading white spaces cannot cooperate
with list exporting. So I still think lists shouldn't be interpreted
here and, as such, not recognized there either. On the other side, in
CENTER and QUOTE blocks, Org may be able to understand them (they are
correctly exported in those cases).

I could make this distinction when I'll update list model. For now, I
suggest using the first patch, which simply ignores lists in HTML and
LaTeX when in a VERSE block.

There are some other problems with those blocks. You can, for example,
replacing your bullets with stars, and export again. This will become
headings in a verse environment. I could bet this wasn't intended.
This is because text as the same column as VERSE block header is
pasted in the temporary buffer at column 0. Items thus become
headings. The second patch prevents headlines inside blocks from being
interpreted.

Regards,

-- Nicolas