On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, John Kitchin wrote:
I have org-src-preserve-indentation set to t.
Are you saying this does not work on your setup? When I copy/paste Roger's source block into a buffer, issue`(setq-local org-src-preserve-indentation t)' in the buffer, put tabs before the indented lines (there were only spaces in the gnus *Article..* buffer), and tangle, the tabs are seen in the output file.
Chuck