Org writer: wrong indentation of properties block

[ngirard]

When typing either
echo "<h2>Title</h2>" | pandoc -f html -t org
or
echo "** Title" | pandoc -f org -t org
Pandoc produces

** Title
   :PROPERTIES:
   :CUSTOM_ID: title
   :END:

The properties block shouldn't be aligned to the title but rather start at column 0:

** Title
:PROPERTIES:
:CUSTOM_ID: title
:END:

I'm using a fresh version of Pandoc built from trunk.

[tarleb]

What makes you think this is wrong? If you run org-set-property (C-c C-x p), the PROPERTIES block is inserted indented. Pandoc simply mimics this behavior. Any reason why we should deviate from this?

[tarleb]

I'm closing this for now. Feel free to reopen if there are pressing reasons to change the current behavior.

If you want to change this for your installation, you can delete nest (level + 1) from line 190 in src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Org.hs and recompile. That will cause the properties block to be emitted unindented.

[ivanhjc]

@tarleb

I'm closing this for now. Feel free to reopen if there are pressing reasons to change the current behavior.

If you want to change this for your installation, you can delete nest (level + 1) from line 190 in src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Org.hs and recompile. That will cause the properties block to be emitted unindented.

Is this an option now? Because if the properties drawers are inserted indented and org-indent-mode is turned on, they appear unindented with the headings. For example, the following snippet

* Test
  :PROPERTIES:
  :CUSTOM_ID: ddd
  :END:

will be displayed like this when org-indent-mode is turned on:

* Test
    :PROPERTIES:
    :CUSTOM_ID: ddd
    :END:

I'm currently using pandoc 2.14.0.1 and org 9.3.

[ivanhjc]

I found a solution which is to run org-indent-region after conversion.

[hpfr]

What makes you think this is wrong? If you run org-set-property (C-c C-x p), the PROPERTIES block is inserted indented. Pandoc simply mimics this behavior. Any reason why we should deviate from this?

@tarleb It looks like this behavior has been fixed in Org. Nowadays drawers are not indented by org-set-property (and indeed org-indent-region now corrects Pandoc's indentation), so this issue is probably worth reopening. Could Pandoc's default behavior be changed to match Org's new default behavior?

[jgm]

I agree. I just tried org-indent-region and, although the :PROPERTIES: did look indented when viewed with org-mode, it isn't actually indented (as you can see if you look at the file with less).
I'll change the writer so it doesn't insert this indentation. Well, let's get @tarleb's feedback.
I note that we also currently have a 2 space nesting for #+begin_quote -- that, too, seems superfluous, and different from what one gets by default. Should we remove that too?

[tarleb]

👍 staying close to the default org behavior seems best. I'll make the changes.