disable table in EXAMPLE or QUOTE block

disable table in EXAMPLE or QUOTE block

[David Rogoff]

I’m trying to draw an ASCII picture in a BEGIN_QUOTE block.  However, since it contains vertical bars, when I hit return, it formats the whole block as if it were a table.  How do I stop this incorrect behavior?  I tried BEGIN_EXAMPLE but it acted the same.

I can work around it by using  colon-space at the beginning of each line instead of begin/end block but it’s a bit ugly.

Thanks - David

Re: disable table in EXAMPLE or QUOTE block

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

David Rogoff <david@therogoffs.com> writes:

> I’m trying to draw an ASCII picture in a BEGIN_QUOTE block. However,
> since it contains vertical bars, when I hit return, it formats the
> whole block as if it were a table. How do I stop this incorrect
> behavior?

It is not incorrect. Quote blocks can contain tables per Org syntax.

> I tried BEGIN_EXAMPLE but it acted the same.

You could use C-c ' to edit example block in a different buffer, not in
Org mode.

> I can work around it by using colon-space at the beginning of each
> line instead of begin/end block but it’s a bit ugly.

The advantage of ": " is that C-c ' will put the new buffer in Artist
mode.

HTH,

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: disable table in EXAMPLE or QUOTE block

[Eric S Fraga]

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On Friday, 14 Jul 2017 at 00:12, David Rogoff wrote:
> I’m trying to draw an ASCII picture in a BEGIN_QUOTE block.  However,
> since it contains vertical bars, when I hit return, it formats the
> whole block as if it were a table.  How do I stop this incorrect
> behavior?  I tried BEGIN_EXAMPLE but it acted the same.

You could use a ditaa source block which would also give you the bonus
of being able to exporting as a graphic?

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: Eric S Fraga via Emacs 26.0.50, Org release_9.0.9-573-g09e612

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