Re: Markup (blod for instance) over line breaks

[Dror Atariah <drorata@gmail.com>]

On Oct 14, 2013, at 07:11 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:

> Dror Atariah <drorata@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Dear org-moders,
>> 
>> It might be terribly simple, but I failed to find a solution. How can
>> I mark several words as bold (or emphasized or any similar markup),
>> in particular if the words spans over *more then one line*?
>> 
>> A similar problem can occur when one is pasting a long line into an
>> org-mode buffer and then, after it is being broken into shorter
>> lines, you try to make it bold.
>> 
>> The documentation (http://orgmode.org/org.html#Emphasis-and-monospace
>> ) states that this kind of markup is aimed at words - so it might not
>> support sentences and in particula r long ones... Is it correct?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Dror
> 
> I use autofill mode, and then change the value of
> `org-emphasis-regexp-components'. That variable is a list, the fifth
> element of which says how many newlines the emphasis markers will allow.
> I set it to three:
> 
> (setf (nth 4 org-emphasis-regexp-components) 3)
Thanks for the tip. It somehow didn't help. I did "M-x org-reload" after setting this, but it didn't help spanning the italic in my case over several lines.


Cheers,
Dror