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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 14:04:06 +0100
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Hello,

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> 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...

You could insert a zero width space between the number and the dot.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou