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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: David Boss <dave.boss@yahoo.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org mode escape characters
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:05:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu7n7vvk.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1831243639.3822729.1657506981314@mail.yahoo.com>

David Boss <dave.boss@yahoo.com> writes:

> Org mode is very crude: it indicates italics by surrounding text by slashes, and so,
> what if the original text contained slashes, intended as ordinary
> text, not escape characters? What if the slashes themselves are
> intended to be italicized?

You can then surround them by zero-width spaces. See https://orgmode.org/manual/Escape-Character.html#Escape-Character

> Is there some way to tell Org mode to use different escape characters?

No, currently.

> Or to make ordinary emacs characters with the italic property, copy
> and paste, like God intended?

Probably htmlize? https://github.com/hniksic/emacs-htmlize

Best,
Ihor


  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-11 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1831243639.3822729.1657506981314.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2022-07-11  2:36 ` Org mode escape characters David Boss
2022-07-11 11:05   ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
     [not found]     ` <1085471464.4732784.1657559607712@mail.yahoo.com>
2022-07-12  2:38       ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-07-11 16:22   ` Max Nikulin

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