Remember to cover the basics, that is, what you expected to happen and what in fact did happen. You don't know how to make a good report? See
http://orgmode.org/manual/Feedback.html#Feedback Your bug report will be posted to the Org-mode mailing list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I add a literal example like #+BEGIN_SRC (defun org-xor (a b) "Exclusive or." (if a (not b) b)) #+END_SRC and #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE (defun org-xor (a b) "Exclusive or." (if a (not b) b)) #+END_EXAMPLE to an org file in various places. Export with (org-html-export-to-html) and (org-latex-export-to-latex) produces inconsistent and malformed example blocks. Some of these blocks produce <p> #+BEGIN<sub>EXAMPLE</sub> (defun org-xor (a b) "Exclusive or." (if a (not b) b)) </p> Others produce <p> (defun org-xor (a b) "Exclusive or." (if a (not b) b)) </p> and \#+BEGIN$_{\text{EXAMPLE}}$ (defun org-xor (a b) "Exclusive or." (if a (not b) b)) \#+END$_{\text{EXAMPLE}}$ vs \begin{example } (defun org-xor (a b) "Exclusive or." (if a (not b) b)) \end{example I expect to see correctly created example areas that maintain spacing/tabs/newlines. I add the following before an example block #+ATTR_HTML: :textarea t :width 40 and it creates <div textarea="t" width="40" class="example "> <p> (defun org-xor (a b) "Exclusive or." (if a (not b) b)) </p> NOTE: I do not believe that I have a mixed install. By deleting org-mode 8.0.3 and using the built-in 7.8.11 these problems are resolved. Emacs : GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10) of 2012-11-10 on charichuelo, modified by Debian Package: Org-mode version 8.0.3 (release_8.0.3-165-g60ca9e @ /home/quazimodo/.emacs.d/vendor/org-mode/lisp/) current state: ============== (setq org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook '(org-babel-hash-at-point org-babel-execute-safely-maybe) org-latex-format-headline-function 'org-latex-format-headline-default-function org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe org-src-native-tab-command-maybe org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe org-babel-header-arg-expand) org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-drawers org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks org-cycle-show-empty-lines org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change) org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text) org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-default-hook org-babel-speed-command-hook) org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer) org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter) org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe) org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-clock-out-hook '(org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer) org-mode-hook '((lambda nil (org-add-hook (quote change-major-mode-hook) (quote org-show-block-all) (quote append) (quote local)) ) (lambda nil (org-add-hook (quote change-major-mode-hook) (quote org-babel-show-result-all) (quote append) (quote local)) ) org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes) org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe) org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer) org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current) org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p )