Isn't #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE Long block #+END_EXAMPLE what you want? John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, Feb 9, 2017 at 3:11 PM, Vicente Vera wrote: > Hello. This discussion > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2017-02/msg00163.html > points out that Org tables are converted to HTML tables when exporting > through "ox-md". Leaving Markdown-related issues aside, I've stumbled > upon this problem a while back. > > It is suggested that wrapping the table within a "#+(BEGIN|END)_EXPORT > md" should leave it as-is in the exported document but that is not the > case. The table gets converted to HTML anyway. > > When skimming through the Org manual I found that > "#+(BEGIN|END)_EXPORT back-end" blocks are used to export text *only* > for the specified back-end. This appears in the ASCII back-end > documentation (does it work like this for others back-ends?). > > In a general level, is there a way to keep blocks of text completely > unmodified (without indentation also) on export? > >