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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: how to export to HTML keeping the whitespaces
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jenia.ivlev@gmail.com (jenia.ivlev) writes:

> Hello:
>
> I want to export to HTML and keep the white spaces.
> Normally, I have to do skip a line (two newline characters) or use 
> #+begin_verse... #+end_verse. 
> Which is not optimal. The two new lines take up too much space, and the
> begin/end verse don't export in the same to way to HTML as it does to
> text. 
> To HTML it keep the indentation corresponding to its location in the
> tree, and to text it has a constant indentation (indentation it gives to
> verse i think). 
> So what is the proper way to do this? How do I instruct org-export to
> keep the whitespaces?
>
> Thanks very much in advnace for your time and kind help.

Take a look at the docstring for the org-export-preserve-breaks
variable. That ought to do it, and you can set it per-file in the export
options.

Eric