Are you sure you have a font that supports italic or boldface variants?

Hmmm ... not sure I know how to check that ...

Might you suggest a "variable", "function" or "menu item" that would

indicate whether the needed "font support" was there/enabled?

It works out of the box on my Emacs, but I didn't mess up with the
default font.

I don't *think* I did anything with the "default font" either ...

So you actually see the "bold" rendering in the "buffer" corresponding to the ".org" file ?

If so, there is "hope" for me ;-)

Thanks for your comments!

-Kenneth