From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Gardella Subject: Re: italicise across lines Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 16:58:39 -0400 Message-ID: <87txz4geps.fsf@gmail.com> References: <1337964205.90053.YahooMailNeo@web121403.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40445) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SY1bA-0008Rq-4r for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 16:59:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SY1b8-0000iF-Je for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 16:58:59 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39664) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SY1b8-0000i4-Cr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 16:58:58 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SY1b3-0006WO-Nn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 25 May 2012 22:58:53 +0200 Received: from 76-204-120-197.lightspeed.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net ([76.204.120.197]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 22:58:53 +0200 Received: from gardellawg by 76-204-120-197.lightspeed.wlfrct.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 May 2012 22:58:53 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Enda writes: > Is there is a way to italicise across lines like > > /italicised > text/ > > rather than > > /italicised/ > /text/ Actually, Org will italicize items like your first example, but only for blocks of text of up to two lines in length. For a longer block you want italicized, you would likely be better off using a #+BEGIN_QUOTE...#+END_QUOTE block and then tweaking your exporter to handle putting QUOTE blocks into italics.