Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> 1. Create an empty org file
> 2. Add some text and mark as italic, bold etc. For example:
>
>   test
>  /test/
>  *test*
> /*test*/
> */test/*
>
> 3. Toggle "pretty entities" on: M-x org-toggle-pretty-entities
>
> Text should be now displayed in italics and bold.

I tried to reproduce this, but I see absolutely no differences in the
buffer before or after doing M-x org-toggle-pretty-entities.  Are there
some additional steps needed?  Do you see any difference when starting
from "emacs -Q"?