The documentation for fixed width areas states: A “fixed-width line” starts with a colon character (:) and either a whitespace character or the immediate end of the line.
Using the test document: ``` :<TAB>foo ``` parses as a paragraph instead of a fixed-width area: ``` (org-data (:standard-properties [1 1 1 7 7 0 nil org-data nil nil nil 3 7 nil #<buffer *scratch*> nil nil nil] :path nil :CATEGORY nil) (section (:standard-properties [1 1 1 7 7 0 nil first-section nil nil nil 1 7 nil #<buffer *scratch*> nil nil #0]) (paragraph (:standard-properties [1 1 1 7 7 0 nil top-comment nil nil nil nil nil nil #<buffer *scratch*> nil nil #1]) #(": foo\n" 0 6 (:parent #2))))) ``` This happens in a document in worg: https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/worg/tree/74e80b0f7600801b1d1594542602394c085cc2f9/item/org-contrib/org-bom.org#L499 Emacs version: GNU Emacs 29.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-musl) Org-mode version: c703541ffcc14965e3567f928de1683a1c1e33f6 (latest in git) Fixed-width area documentation: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-syntax.html#Fixed_Width_Areas -- Tom Alexander