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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Subject: Re: Fwd:  Emphasizing multiple lines
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2014 11:33:47 +0800
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"Doyley, Marvin M." <mdoyley@ur.rochester.edu> writes:

>> 
>>> Check out the docstring for org-emphasis-regexp-components -- the fifth
>>> element determines how many newlines can be spanned by emphasis markers.
>>> For instance, I've got:
>>> 
>>> (setf (nth 4 org-emphasis-regexp-components) 3)
>> 
>>> Hope that helps.
>> 
>>> E
>> 
>> Hi Eric,
>> 
>> This works like a charm. The only snag is that I have to refill the paragraph to get it to work.
>> Is there a way around this ?
>> 
>> cheers,
>> M

Yup, looks like that's how it works over here, too -- as far as I know
it won't automatically display the face when you close emphasis past a
newline. It's only cosmetic, though -- export and whatnot will parse it
correctly. My guess is there's no easy way around it...