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I have several strings in my org file, which look like as follows:

  1. something
  2. something else

When I org-export this file to html, these strings are automatically converted to lists, starting with 1. How to prevent that and export literal strings? Better with some specific #+OPTION or something like that. And how to disable offsets and padding for such strings?

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  • It's not only html. That's org mode syntax for lists, probably from org-item-re. Sometimes I can't find ways to escape the org mode syntax :( but maybe you can mess with org-plain-list-ordered-item-terminator if you don't use lists anywhere else in the file.
    – amitp
    Jan 5, 2017 at 0:06
  • Is it possible to change org-plain-list-ordered-item-terminator just for one particulat file?
    – Lev Lamberov
    Jan 5, 2017 at 7:23
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    Ah, as suggested here inserting a non-breaking space after number and a dot works fine. It can be done with C-x 8 SPC. But it is also dirty thing. Would be better to customize org-plain-list-ordered-item-terminator in #+STARTUP or in #+OPTIONS.
    – Lev Lamberov
    Jan 5, 2017 at 7:51

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To export literal text you'll need to use the literal example syntax.

e.g.

  • Original text

    5. something
6. something else

  • Literal Example

    #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
 5. something
 6. something else
#+END_EXAMPLE

    Exports to HTML as PRE tags

        <pre class="example">
    5. something
    6. something else
    </pre>

An Alternative solution using org entities and replace-regexp

e.g.

  • Original text

    5. something
6. something else

  • Entities Example

    \nbsp5. something
\nbsp6. something else

    Exports to HTML as &nbsp;

    &nbsp;5. something
&nbsp;6. something else

    I used following command to do the search & replace:

    M-xreplace-regexpRET([0-9]+. )\nbsp\1RET

Tested using

GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-unknown-cygwin, GTK+ Version 3.14.13)
org-mode: 9.0

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  • Except you now get the formatting for examples. You could trick the CSS to change it, but you can't do that if you also want to use real examples.
    – JeanPierre
    Jan 5, 2017 at 10:29
  • @JeanPierre - Good point!! I'll update my answer to include a workaround that doesn't export as pre tags but uses org entities instead.
    – Melioratus
    Jan 5, 2017 at 18:16

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