Re: force italic mode?

[William Henney <whenney@gmail.com>]

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On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:31 PM, hymie! <hymie@lactose.homelinux.net>
wrote:

> In our last episode, the evil Dr. Lacto had captured our hero,
>   Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com>, who said:
> > You can accomplish this by using an entity that expands to nothing.  The
> > closest entry in org-entities is \zwj (zero width word-joining space):
> >
> > foo\zwj{}/bar/\zwj{}baz
>
> This doesn't work for me. :(
>
> It works to the left of the zwj, such as
> =foo=\zwj{}bar
>
> ...but not to the right as you did above.
>
> It's hard to read the value I have for org-emphasis-regexp-components
> but it looks like } is in there, so I guess it should be working?
>
>
No, it is only in the POSTMATCH part. If you add it to the PREMATCH part
too, then your example would work.  But I think it would be neater to put a
pair of literal "zero width space" characters in your file.  I managed to
get this to work by doing:

(setq org-emphasis-regexp-components '("[:space:][:cntrl:]('\"{}"
"[:space:][:cntrl:]-.,:!?;'\")}\\[" "[:space:][:cntrl:]" "." 1))

This means you can write "fuzzy​/wuzzy/​wuzzabear" where there is a 0x200B
character (ZERO WIDTH SPACE) either side of /wuzzy/ (hopefully this will
survive in the email).  I inserted the characters with "C-x 8 RET ...".

In case you prefer to have something more visible in the source file, I
also made it so you can use any ascii control character to bracket the
delimiters.  For instance, the NULL character: "fuzzy^@/wuzzy/^@bear".
Note that those are not real NULLs, but are how they appear in the emacs
buffer.  You can insert them with "C-q 0 RET".


Will








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  Dr William Henney, Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica,
  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia

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