Hmm nope. Still some modifications are introduced depending on the back-end. Example blocks are generally indented. There are cases where those changes makes sense such as in HTML export but for ASCII and ASCII-based markups truly verbatim blocks would make sense I believe. For example, one could edit an Org document and keep some text blocks completely unchanged so later another processing tool (such as Pandoc) could deal with them accordingly. 2017-02-09 14:27 GMT+00:00 John Kitchin : > 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? >> >> >