Thanks, Suvayu. I'll bet somebody on this list could knock out 400 lines of elisp code that would do the trick, but I'm happy to punt on it. It isn't that important a feature.

-- Mike

From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@yahoo.com>
Cc: Org-Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [O] Underline ONLY the first character of a word?

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Michael Hannon <jm_hannon@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I haven't been able to find a way to underline just the first character of a
> word. For instance,
>
> _e_vent
>
> doesn't produce what I want. I tried:
>
> _e_ vent
>
> and that underlined the 'e' but, of course, left an unwanted space.
>
> Is there some way to do this? A better way?
>

I don't believe you can.

--
Suvayu

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