Emphasis on a region

Emphasis on a region

[Berthold Lorke]

I am talking about this feature:
https://orgmode.org/manual/Emphasis-and-Monospace.html

It currently doesn't seem to be possible to mark a whole region with,
say, "+" to strike through a whole paragraph, especially when separating
each sentence in a paragraph by a linebreak (i believe this is even
encouraged, as seen here https://orgmode.org/manual/Paragraphs.html).

Is there a fix for this?  Enclosing each line with emphasis markers
(like "+") doesn't fix it, as when exported every sentence in a
paragraph would then have a space inbetween the strikethroughs.

--Berber

Re: Emphasis on a region

[tomas]

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On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 12:32:25AM +0200, Berthold Lorke wrote:
> I am talking about this feature:
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Emphasis-and-Monospace.html
> 
> It currently doesn't seem to be possible to mark a whole region with,
> say, "+" to strike through a whole paragraph, especially when separating
> each sentence in a paragraph by a linebreak (i believe this is even
> encouraged, as seen here https://orgmode.org/manual/Paragraphs.html).
> 
> Is there a fix for this?  Enclosing each line with emphasis markers
> (like "+") doesn't fix it, as when exported every sentence in a
> paragraph would then have a space inbetween the strikethroughs.

Yes, see variable `org-emphasis-regexp-components': it is a list
describing how an emphasis span (bold, emphasised, strike-through
etc) is "built".

It's fifth component is the number of newlines allowed whithin such
a span. It's set, by default, to 1.

You can modify it like so

  (setf (nth 4 org-emphasis-regexp-components) 4)

to allow 4 newlines in your emphasis span. You have to reload
Org for it to take effect, so the best might be to have this
somewhere in your Emacs init just before loading Org?

Perhaps someone with a more elegant approach can chime in.

Cheers
-- t

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Re: Emphasis on a region

[Russell Adams]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 10:35:28AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Yes, see variable `org-emphasis-regexp-components': it is a list
> describing how an emphasis span (bold, emphasised, strike-through
> etc) is "built".

Can this be done in M-x customize?



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Re: Emphasis on a region

[Eric S Fraga]

On Wednesday,  3 Jun 2020 at 00:32, Berthold Lorke wrote:
> Is there a fix for this?  Enclosing each line with emphasis markers
> (like "+") doesn't fix it, as when exported every sentence in a
> paragraph would then have a space inbetween the strikethroughs.

You don't specify what your export target is.  If PDF via LaTeX, you can
always define a new environment for LaTeX and then use special blocks in
org to invoke that environment.  For instance, the following works:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+latex_header: \newenvironment{emphasis}{\em}{}

#+begin_emphasis
This is the first line.
And this is the second.
#+end_emphasis
Followed by the third.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

HTH,
eric

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Re: Emphasis on a region

[tomas]

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On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:35:51PM +0200, Russell Adams wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 10:35:28AM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > Yes, see variable `org-emphasis-regexp-components': it is a list
> > describing how an emphasis span (bold, emphasised, strike-through
> > etc) is "built".
> 
> Can this be done in M-x customize?

Not, as far as I know.

Cheers
-- t

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Re: Emphasis on a region

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Berthold Lorke <berthold@lorke.de> writes:

> I am talking about this feature:
> https://orgmode.org/manual/Emphasis-and-Monospace.html
>
> It currently doesn't seem to be possible to mark a whole region with,
> say, "+" to strike through a whole paragraph, especially when separating
> each sentence in a paragraph by a linebreak (i believe this is even
> encouraged, as seen here https://orgmode.org/manual/Paragraphs.html).
>
> Is there a fix for this?  Enclosing each line with emphasis markers
> (like "+") doesn't fix it, as when exported every sentence in a
> paragraph would then have a space inbetween the strikethroughs.

Could you show an example of what you are trying to achieve?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou