Re: Markup (blod for instance) over line breaks

[Dror Atariah <drorata@gmail.com>]

On Oct 13, 2013, at 22:22 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> Dnia 2013-10-13, o godz. 21:58:20
> Dror Atariah <drorata@gmail.com> napisał(a):
> 
>> 
>> On Oct 13, 2013, at 21:38 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> 
>>> Dnia 2013-10-13, o godz. 20:49:30
>>> Dror Atariah <drorata@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>>> 
>>>> 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 particular long ones... Is it correct?
>>> 
>>> Not really an answer, but does visual-line-mode help in your use
>>> case?
>> It does help. Doesn't org-mode has some sort of dedicated
>> line-breaking mechanism? How would you turn it into a complete
>> solution?
> 
> Not that I know of.  Basically, "lines" may be /visual/ (i.e., broken by
> the display engine at spaces etc., but the whole paragraph is one long
> line in the file) or /physical/ (i.e., with newline characters at the
> end of each line).  In Emacs, you an use M-q to "fill" a paragraph
> (more or less, convert from visual to physical lines), and something
> along the lines of C-u 9 9 9 9 9 C-x f M-q to "unfill" a paragraph.
> (There are also "unfill" functions (quod google), though they are not
> part of stock Emacs.)
> 
> There is an ongoing discussion on which is better, too long to repeat
> any of the arguments here.  For a LaTeX-centric approach, see e.g.
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4376/good-strategy-for-line-breaks-with-paragraphs-of-latex-source
> (note that Emacs's longline-mode was a predecessor of visual-line-mode).
In this case I suppose I will revert to visual-line-mode, just like I have in my LaTeX buffers. 

> And indeed, bold/italic spanning more than a few words might not be a
> good idea.  And in cases it is, it's problably better to define a
> specialized "environment" (in LaTeX lingo) - like one for theorems
> (which are often typeset in italics).
What is the org-mode's equivalent of LaTeX's environment? That COULD be very helpful.

Thanks,
Dror