Playing down the text in org-mode

[fatiparty--- via "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>]

Jan 14, 2022, 07:42 by maciaschain@posteo.net:

> fatiparty--- via "General discussions about Org-mode." writes:
>
>> _a geographical region that corresponds to present-day Israel and Palestine_
>>

I have used the _ for underlining.  This could hove been misleading, because I do not want
normal text within the underlined part.  It is an example of emphasizing using _ 

It would be great if there was something else that instead of emphasizing the text compared
to normal, the part is downplayed.  I am currently using _ bet changing the colour to be faint.
But this is not a long term solution.


> In any case, from a strictly (ortho)typographical point of view this is a
> matter of nesting emphasis. If what you want to do is highlight a word
> within another emphasis (an underline), the correct typographical
> procedure is to italicize or bold that word:
>
> _a /geographical/ region that corresponds to present-day Israel and
> Palestine_
>
> ==>
>
> \uline{a \emph{geographical} region that corresponds to present-day
> Israel and Palestine}
>
> What you can't do in Org is nest emphases of the same order:
>
> #+begin_example
> /The translators of the /Odyssey/ in the Hispanic tradiction/
> #+end_example
>
> It does not produce in LaTeX:
>
> #+begin_src latex
>  \emph{The translators of the \emph{Odyssey} in the Hispanic tradiction}
> #+end_src
>
> It is not a matter of a passage being de-emphasized (it doesn't work
> that way), but rather that it is emphasized within another emphasis
> text. In the above case, the way to emphasize Odyssey in a text already
> emphasized in italics is with a normal font or with an underline (the
> correct thing is with a normal font).
>
> There are two separate questions here: how that is represented in Org
> and how it should be exported.
>