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From: William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: italicise across lines
Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 16:58:39 -0400
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Enda <enda_k2@yahoo.com> writes:

> Is there is a way to italicise across lines like
>
> /italicised
> text/
>
> rather than
>
> /italicised/
> /text/

Actually, Org will italicize items like your first example, but only for
blocks of text of up to two lines in length.  For a longer block you
want italicized, you would likely be better off using a
#+BEGIN_QUOTE...#+END_QUOTE block and then tweaking your exporter to
handle putting QUOTE blocks into italics.