Re: italics and fill paragraph behavior

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>]

On Jul 18, 2008, at 1:26 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:

> 1. When I ue italics with  /something in italics/ and the text spans
> across multile lines org arbitrarily does from italics into roman and
> back ( in a way which I cannot fathom).

By default Org looks only for a max of two lines for emphasis.  You  
can change this by customizing the variable org-emphasis-regexp- 
components, the last element gives the max number of lines you want to  
allow.  A restart of Emacs maybe required after you changed this  
before it becomes effective.

Also, generally font-lock can have problems with font lock expressions  
that span multiple lines while you type them.  For example, when you  
type

  /bkjkkjjk .... text including one newline .... lkjflkjsl/

font-lock fails to see this.  Do M-x font-lock-fontify-buffer to fix  
such cases.  Next time you open the buffer, font-lock does look at the  
entire buffer and finds such multiline locations.

> Is there some other prefered way for multiline italics?

You can use @<i> .... @</i> if you are only interested in italics for  
HTML export, but I do not think this is a "preferred" way.

> 2. M-q (fill-paragraph) messes up paragraphs which have lines ending
> in '\\' ie it joins lines ending \\ to the next and the \\ stops
> acting

Yes, this is a problem I do not know how to fix.

- Carsten