How to hard indent with spaces in org-mode?
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No-Possession3746 · 2022-07-21 16:59

I am trying to copy an org mode outline to give to someone who doesn't
have emacs. According to this: [https://orgmode.org/manual/Hard-
indentation.html](https://orgmode.org/manual/Hard-indentation.html) ,
I should be able to hard indent with spaces by setting those three
variables. But the ascii document is still indented with asterisks. I
also tried turning off `org-indent-mode`, still has leading asterisks.

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whudwl · 2022-07-21 23:07

you question is not clear. so you are **trying to copy an org mode
outline to give to someone who doesn't have emacs**, what's the
problem here?  you never mentioned what problem you were trying to
solve.

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whudwl · 2022-07-21 23:27

Also, if you want to share org file to a non-emacs user, just export
your org file into a text file. **C-c C-e** by default takes you to
the dispatcher, where you can see the export to text option.

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dpoggio · 2022-07-22 01:38

Just use the exporter: `C-x C-e`, and export it as any kind of file. I
do often share as HTML or use pandoc and ox-pandoc to share a docx.

Also: org indent just hides the asterisks, it doesn’t actually erase
them as they’re part of the markup format.

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