On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I need to insert bits of plain text into a final composite Org document.
> The text should be
> > protected from any Org formatting (for example, "* " at the beginning of
> a line should not be
> > interpreted as a headline). Is enclosing it with #+BEGIN_SRC/#+END_SRC
> or #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE/#
> > +END_EXAMPLE the correct way? I'm thinking yes, but my Emacs still
> interprets the "* " as headline
> > though.
> >
>
> This seems to work - I can export to html or latex and get the expected
> result:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>
> * foo
> org example
>
> #+begin_example
> ,* bar
> <2011-06-16 Thu>
>
> This is example code.
>
> #+end_example
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But I don't know all the rules and moreover I don't know of any place where
> they are described. I'll look around and post an update when I find it.
> But feel free to beat me to it.
>
> Nick
>

Btw, I still need to escape "#+END_SRC" if they occur at the start of line
in text, for example by prepending it with a space (akin to prepending a
space to "From " in mbox format).

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