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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Italicise block of text
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:46:45 +0000
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Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> Dunno if this makes sense, but now that we have @@html: ... @@ etc., I
> wonder if it is worth considering @@italic: ... @@, or @@emphasis /:
> ... @@, or @@emphasis italic: ... @@.
> Or $[emphasis :beg "/"] ... $[emphasis :end] as previously discussed.

No.  Please no!  We'll end up with XML before long :-(

Semantically, the use of @@ is for actions that are export target
specific whereas italic etc. are text markup and inherently export
target neutral (generally).  Very different beasts...

One major attraction of org, for me, is the minimal clutter introduced
by the language so that it doesn't get in the way of the writing.

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: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 24.3.1, Org release_8.2.4-322-gece429