nested and partially emphasizing

nested and partially emphasizing

[joe]

Hi there,

often discussed here, but seems have not lead to an actual solution
yet:

/italic/ *bold* _underlined_

works fine, but nested emphasizing not, as:

*This is /actually/ bold.*

Also partial emphasizing is not working by default:

Neither for bar*keeper* nor for *bar*keeper.

Not to speak about some further format stuff, like combinations with
text parts set higher or lower.

In my opinion the org-mode should be enhanced to support formatting as
handy as typical Wiki environments do. Also concerning limitations of
regular expressions.

Often I found very monosyllabic hints to the
org-emphasis-... variables. Anyone who knows a place where those
points already are discussed or even explained with some
comprehensible and working samples?

Thanks, Joe.

Re: nested and partially emphasizing

[Jambunathan K]

> Neither for bar*keeper* nor for *bar*keeper.

This will interest you

http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg45991.html

,----[ C-h v org-emphasis-regexp-components RET ]
| org-emphasis-regexp-components is a variable defined in `org.el'.
| Its value is (" 	('\"{" "- 	.,:!?;'\")}\\" " 	\n,\"'" "." 1)
| 
| 
| Documentation:
| Components used to build the regular expression for emphasis.
| This is a list with five entries.  Terminology:  In an emphasis string
| like " *strong word* ", we call the initial space PREMATCH, the final
| space POSTMATCH, the stars MARKERS, "s" and "d" are BORDER characters
| and "trong wor" is the body.  The different components in this variable
| specify what is allowed/forbidden in each part:
| 
| pre          Chars allowed as prematch.  Beginning of line will be allowed too.
| post         Chars allowed as postmatch.  End of line will be allowed too.
| border       The chars *forbidden* as border characters.
| body-regexp  A regexp like "." to match a body character.  Don't use
|              non-shy groups here, and don't allow newline here.
| newline      The maximum number of newlines allowed in an emphasis exp.
| 
| Use customize to modify this, or restart Emacs after changing it.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

>
> Thanks, Joe.
>
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>

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Re: nested and partially emphasizing

[joe]

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This will interest you
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode <at> gnu.org/msg45991.html
> 

Thank you very much, an actually helpful hint. It does not solve the 
problem of nested emphasizing, but it's a pragmatic way to solve some 
problems concerning emphasizing...

Concerning nested emphasizing I read some comments by Dominik which 
look like if this nesting is not planned to become available - if so,
I would disagree in each case, because in my opinion the org-mode
without Wiki-like formatting features loses against modern Wikis. 
What would make me sad, because it actually has too much other 
features being unavailable within the Wiki world...

Regards,
Joern.

Re: nested and partially emphasizing

[suvayu ali]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, joe <gruel@cognitec.com> wrote:
> What would make me sad, because it actually has too much other
> features being unavailable within the Wiki world...
>

You can always export to wiki formats and edit the wiki source. I
believe there are some hints about exporting to wiki formats on Worg.

-- 
Suvayu

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