yeah, right, make me feel even dumber....
...wait, let me just wipe the egg off my face....  :-)
Cheers.
Fil

On 25 February 2011 22:11, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
Filippo A. Salustri <salustri@ryerson.ca> wrote:

> I did try to google a few things, but "hide" was never one of my keywords.
>  Sigh.
> Google is great IFF you know what keywords to use.
>
> Thanks for the pointer.
> Cheers.
> Fil
>
> On 25 February 2011 18:11, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> >>
> >> So I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to make the emphasis characters
> >> invisible.
> >> EG: /word/ would be rendered as "word" in italics, without the slashes.
> >>
> >
> > What have you done to find the answer?
> >
> > Google: org hide emphasis
> >
> > is already good enough!
> >

This is with hindsight 20/20 but here is a method for finding such
things, using only emacs: C-h v org-<TAB> then switch to the
*Completions* buffer and search for ``emphasis''. The third hit is
org-hide-emphasis-markers - and you don't have to guess the "hide"
part...

Nick



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