Hello, On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:35 PM Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > On Fri, Jul 16, 2021 at 12:07 PM William Denton wrote: > > > However, I was a bit surprised when I found that a commented line starts > a new > > paragraph. > > I hadn't yet discovered that, but I think it should be considered a > bug. Comments causing paragraph breaks has been a long known behavior. I learned about it few years back, probably from one of the threads here or by reading the code. > The output of your example should remove the commented line > entirely, and so be: > > In this paragraph I introduce an idea. > But I am sure about this. And here is my conclusion. > > Perhaps it can be easily fixed? > I don't think it would be a very easy fix as the behavior stems from an intentional low level implementation in org-element.el. Changing this behavior will cause a regression in all Org exporters out there.