Bill Hager <whager@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't seem to understand #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE and it's relation to html
> export.  What I think is that everything between a #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE and
> #+END_EXAMPLE should end up in <pre> tags when I do a HTML export with C-c
> C-e b.  However, the reality is that everything ends up in a <p> tag for me.
> 
> My goal is to have sections of my org file end up in <pre> tags when I HTML
> export.  Any ideas on how I can do this?
> 
> I'm running the default emacs 22.2.1 on Ubuntu Jaunty.
> 

I can't reproduce this. I used the following simple org file:

,----
| 
| * Test
| 
| Here's an example:
| 
| #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
| This is a test.
| #+END_EXAMPLE
`----

did C-c C-e h and got the attached html file. The example is
<pre>'d properly I think.

HTH,
Nick