No what Hymie wants is part of the middle of that word italicizes I think. On Thursday, November 17, 2016, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > hymie! > writes: > > > Greetings. > > > > (My first question is, can I post from gmane?) > > > > I know how to make text italic by /surrounding/ it with /slashes/. > > > > I know that there's a variable (org-emphasis-regex-components) that > > specifies what characters are allowed before or after the markup > > characters. > > > > But let's say I don't want to mess with my document defaults. I just > > want to specify, in this one particular place, that I have the word > > > > fuzzywuzzywuzzabear > > > > and I want "wuzzy" to be italic. Is there a way I can do that? > > You haven't actually said why you can't just write > /fuzzywuzzywuzzabear/, but presumably there's some reason that won't > work. You might consider literal export snippets, though then you'd need > to target each different backend you're exporting to. So you could do: > > @@html:@@fuzzywuzzywuzzabear@@html:@@ > > For instance. Is that what you meant? > > > -- John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu