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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ascii fill column ignored
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 22:01:47 +0200
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Hello,

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> ***** (let ((org-export-preserve-breaks t)) (org-export-to-buffer
> 'ascii "whatever.txt" nil t nil))

According to `org-export-preserve-breaks' docstring:

  Non-nil means preserve all line breaks when exporting.

As a consequence, this variable also prevents filling. Therefore,
`org-ascii-text-width' has no effect in this case. If you absolutely
need both, use \\ at end of lines instead.


Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou