Re: Ox unindents lines but I can't see when

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Léo Ackermann <leo.komba@gmail.com> writes:

> I can not reproduce this (ie. my second paragraph is unindented). Here
> comes my bug.org/org.txt files I have using ASCII export.
> I run Emacs 28.2, I just updated the packages.
> I think this is not of importance here, but I use Doom Emacs (up-to-date
> also).
>
> I confirm that my goal is to have the indentation of the second paragraph
> preserved.

Ok. I see what is happening.
The file you provided here is importantly different from the text you
had in text part of your email.

The text I tried had multiple lines with the smallest common indentation =
0. The text you attached consists of a single line with a non-zero
common indentation (indentation = the single line indentation).

As a basic principle of Org markup, Org ignores common indentation of
paragraphs and other syntax elements inside section. Thus, your
paragraph indentation gets removed. It is done in
`org-element-normalize-contents'.

If you want to force Org to ignore the one-line paragraph indentation,
you can put an escape character [zero-width space] (see
https://orgmode.org/manual/Escape-Character.html#Escape-Character) at
the beginning of the line. Alternatively, you can put a non-exportable
object like @@nil:@@.

Hope it helps.

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