jenia.iv...@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