Thank you, Nicolas! This is just what I need.

It seems that my installation of org mode (from orgmode.org/elpa) does not
have its info file updated to reflect that change of syntax.

Dan



On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Dan Griswold <dgriswol@rochester.rr.com> writes:
>
> > @<text:span text:style-name="Highlight">This is a
> > highlighted text@</text:span>.  But this is a
> > regular text.
> >
> > doesn't work. That is, the resulting .odt file shows the text above with
> > the @ symbols. Am I missing something?
>
> Syntax for Org > 8.0 is:
>
>   @@odt:<text:span text:style-name="Highlight">@@
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>
>