John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I believe this is hard coded in org-entry-get-with-inheritance. The
> fastest option would be an override advice with your own function that
> replaces (and value " ") with (and value ""), and maybe the two other
> " "  with "".
> 
> John
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Thanks for the advice. I've added the caret symbol (:EXPORT_FILE_NAME^:
assignment-1) to mean 'concatenate' as opposed to + for 'joining'. If
this is something the community would want I will clean it up and send
in a patch.