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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to add custom markup elements and to define custom backends?
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:33:10 +0200
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On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:15:56AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> 
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > sometimes I need markup elements than missing in Org mode, for example
> > combination of both bold and italic. Some backends, for instance html
> > and latex (with minor exception) support such combinations. So I wonder
> > 1) how to define custom or new markup elements that can be used in
> >   backends, if it is possible
> > 2) and how to extend or customize (write a custom backend) to take into
> >   accout these new elements.
> > 
> 
> Hi Vladimir,
> 
> Org mode does not support this directly (and to be honest, I know very few applications
> where combining different attributes makes a lot of sense).
> 
> You could probably play with org-emphasis-alist and org-latex-text-markup-alist to cook something up.
> but first I would think very hard about the question if this is really needed and does not create too much visual clutter.

I agree with Carsten on the last point about visual clutter.  That said,
if the OP rarely uses one of the standard mark-ups, say +strikethrough+,
then an export filter overriding the default would do just fine.  For an
example, see here:

<http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/ox-beamer.html#export-filters>

Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

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