Tabs Added to Preformatted Text in ODF format

[Frimkron]

I'm having an issue whereby spaces in my code blocks are being converted to tabs when I convert to odf.

For example, the following diagram:

    +-----+      +-----+
    |  A  | ---> |  B  |
    +-----+      +-----+

Gets converted to the following markup (I've added linebreaks for readability):

<text:p text:style-name="Preformatted Text">
    +-----+<text:tab/>  +-----+<text:line-break/>
    |  A  | ---&gt; |  B  |<text:line-break/>
    +-----+<text:tab/>  +-----+<text:line-break/>
</text:p>

The added <text:tab/> elements cause the preformatted text to look wrong when opened in Open Office, for example.

I'm using multimarkdown version 3.5.1

[fletcher]

That's because tabs get converted to 4 spaces during processing, and this is the only way to get tabs back (e.g. converting 4 spaces back to a tab).

There might be a way to change this behavior inside of code blocks, but this is going to be a really low priority for me.

[Frimkron]

It's probably also worth noting that to properly preserve runs of spaces, they should be encoded as <text:s/> elements, like this:

<text:p text:style-name="Preformatted Text">
    +-----+<text:s text:c="6"/>+-----+<text:line-break/>
    |<text:s text:c="2"/>A<text:s text:c="2"/>| ---&gt; |<text:s text:c="2"/>B<text:s text:c="2"/>|<text:line-break/>
    +-----+<text:s text:c="6"/>+-----+</text:line-break/>
</text:p>

[fletcher]

I'll have to look into that. I'm definitely not an expert in ODF. I'm actually a bit surprised it works as well as it does. ;)