Re: force italic mode?

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Eric, hi all,
>
> 2016ko azaroak 17an, Eric Abrahamsen-ek idatzi zuen:
>> 
>> John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>> 
>>> No what Hymie wants is part of the middle of that word italicizes I
>>> think. 
>> 
>> Oh, sorry! Don't know how I missed that. Well, still, same solution:
>> 
>> fuzzy@@html:<emph>@@wuzzy@@html:</emph>@@wuzzabear
>> 
>> So far as I know there's no way to do that *outside* of an
>> export-specific snippet, but I would love to be proved wrong.
>
> You can accomplish this by using an entity that expands to nothing.  The
> closest entry in org-entities is \zwj (zero width word-joining space):
>
> foo\zwj{}/bar/\zwj{}baz
>
> I have an entry like the following defined in org-entities-user for this
> purpose:
>
> ("nothing" "" nil "" "" "" "")
>
> It might be worth considering adding to org-entities, but I’ve never
> proposed it as it looks like an ugly hack to me.

Huh... but with the \zwj{} trick the /bar/ still isn't recognized as
italic -- I think that was the OP's main hope.