Desired behaviour: emphasis markers that only work within a paragraph (sentences without a line break). In the following example, only the first expression should appear in bold: *jk j* *jk j* So I set the maximum new lines to zero in org-emphasis-regexp- components (instead of the default of 1): (setcar (last org-emphasis-regexp-components) 0) (org-set-emph-re 'org-emphasis-regexp-components org-emphasis-regexp- components) This works.  However, now the first expressions does not appear in bold either. Only single words without any spaces like *jk* still appear in bold. Sentences do not appear in bold anymore. Do I misinterpret the meaning of max newlines in org-emphasis-regexp-components? KR, berchas ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - Emacs : GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2024-06-24 Package: Org mode version 9.6.15 (release_9.6.15 @ /snap/emacs/current/usr/share/emacs/29.4/lisp/org/)