On 2014-06-26 03:38, Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> writes:

> I have the following expression in my manuscript:
>
> /Caltex Oil (Aust) Pty Ltd v The Dredge 'Willemstad'/ [1976] HCA 65
>
> I want the /.../ part to be italicised on export, but (of course) it isn't.
>
> The variable org-emphasis-regexp-components was customizable before
> 8.0. Is there some workaround to get my desired results? I suppose
> writing some filters is one way. Anything simpler?

You can set it by hand (before loading org). This is what I have in my
init file.

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(setq org-emphasis-regexp-components
      '(" \t('\"{" "- \t.,:!?;'\")}\\" " \t\n," "." 1))
#+end_src

Alan

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