hi again, i had a look at the content.xml file in each case.
with org-export-preserve-breaks disabled, whitespace is exported (correctly) like so: <text:line-break/> <text:s text:c="5"/>text here indented 5 spaces.<text:line-break/> with the option enabled, the the spaces are directly transferred to the file: <text:line-break/> text printed after 5 spaces, which are not properly preserved in the org file.<text:line-break/> regards, m On 23/11/2020 19:19, mousebot wrote: > hi org, > > i use verse blocks to export to odt in a way that preserves whitespace. if i > enable org-export-preserve-breaks, whitespace in verse blocks is not > preserved: any spaces used to indent text from the left margin are reduced to > a single space. is this intended behavior? i had hoped to be able to use both > features in my document. > > example: > > #+begin_verse > here you are, > doing your > darned > best > to export > #+end_verse > > will export as > > here you are > doing your > darned > best > to export > > i tested this by loading emacs -Q, evaluating (setq > org-export-preserve-breaks t), then using the normal org export dispatch, > with no template. > > best > m >