Thx Bastien!

i look at it but it seemed highly complex (im an academic and dont know much (well nothing tbh :) ) about programming. is there a simple way of defining these like the GUI for org-emphasis-alist  (i used customize-variables )  
as you said i just want to highlight (BG/FG) specific areas/lines.
any help would be greatly appreciated!

best guys

Itai


On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
Hi Xebar,

Xebar Saram <zeltakc@gmail.com> writes:

> so after struggling for weeks to figure out why i always get an error
> when exporting i finally nailed the issue: org-emphasis-alist. i have
> alot of them (see below) and use them in orgmode quite often. is this
> a bug or if you want to use the exporter you should avoid using
> org-emphasis-alist?

You use org-emphasis-alist to do simple highlighting, right?

In that case, using you should better use `font-lock-add-keywords'.

See http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AddKeywords for details.

HTH,

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 Bastien