Re: Markup (blod for instance) over line breaks

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Dror Atariah <drorata@gmail.com> writes:

> Dear org-moders,
>
> It might be terribly simple, but I failed to find a solution. How can
> I mark several words as bold (or emphasized or any similar markup),
> in particular if the words spans over *more then one line*?
>
> A similar problem can occur when one is pasting a long line into an
> org-mode buffer and then, after it is being broken into shorter
> lines, you try to make it bold.
>
> The documentation (http://orgmode.org/org.html#Emphasis-and-monospace
> ) states that this kind of markup is aimed at words - so it might not
> support sentences and in particula r long ones... Is it correct?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Dror

I use autofill mode, and then change the value of
`org-emphasis-regexp-components'. That variable is a list, the fifth
element of which says how many newlines the emphasis markers will allow.
I set it to three:

(setf (nth 4 org-emphasis-regexp-components) 3)

Hope that helps,
Eric