No I meant to confirm that it does work for me with that setting. 

On Wednesday, March 11, 2015, Charles C. Berry <ccberry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, John Kitchin wrote:

I have org-src-preserve-indentation set to t.

Are you saying this does not work on your setup?

When I copy/paste Roger's source block into a buffer, issue
`(setq-local org-src-preserve-indentation t)' in the buffer, put tabs before the indented lines (there were only spaces in the gnus *Article..* buffer), and tangle, the tabs are seen in the output file.

Chuck



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