Alright, I solved my own problem.
I was able to get verbatim working with a unicode symbol (√) as delimeter,
by editing both org-emphasis-alist and org-export-latex-emphasis-alist.
Cheers!
--Nathaniel


On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Nathaniel Cunningham <
nathaniel.cunningham@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to incorporate some scraps of code in an org file.  These scraps
> include both ~ and =, the markers for verbatim text and code.
>
> I used customize-variable org-emphasis-alist to change the symbols to mark
> verbatim text, but without success; adding unusual symbols broke LaTeX
> export of the org file, and swapping the underline and verbatim symbols had
> no effect (code marked _like so_ was still underlined instead of made
> verbatim).
>
> Advice would be appreciated!
> Thanks,
> Nathaniel
>
> p.s. I don't subscribe to this list, so please include my email in
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