I played around with it for a little bit and now the export is working
fine. I'm not sure exactly what I changed, but it's working as intended now.

Thanks,
Will


On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Leonard Randall <
leonard.a.randall@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> The example works fine for me. It seems like the most likely cause of your
> issue is your export settings. One thing that you might try is to add this
> to the top of your file.
>
> #+Options: *:t
>
> If you already have an options section on your file you may want to check
> that you do not have *:nil anywhere in this line. If you do change it to
> `*:t as in the example above.  You might also want to check that you have
> not set `org-export-with-emphasis' to nil anywhere in your init file.
>
> More info on configuring export settings can be found here:
> http://orgmode.org/manual/Export-settings.html
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> All best,
> Leonard
>
>
> On 28 April 2014 15:17, William Kunkel <will@wkunkel.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a title in which I need to have some text in italics. I tried this:
>>
>> #+TITLE: Analysis of Sartre's /No Exit/
>>
>> But the slashes were just exported literally, instead of italicizing.
>> This seemed like a pretty basic problem, but I've been unable to find
>> anything about it via Google or in the list archives. Is there a simple
>> solution?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Will
>>
>
>