Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes: > Titus von der Malsburg <malsb...@posteo.de> writes: > >> Correct me if I’m wrong but there are a lot of things in Org that are >> just about typesetting: *bold*, /italic/, _underlined_, =verbatim= and >> ~code~, +strike-through+. Would you remove these things as well? > > I could argue that emphasis is not just about typesetting. It conveys > a meaning. How emphasis is rendered _is_ typesetting, however. For > example, "latex" and "beamer" export back-ends render bold text > differently.
It's similar to how HTML went from <i> and <b> to <emph> and <strong>. The former were presentation directives. The latter are semantic directives. They're practically the same, for reasons of backwards compatibility, and conceptual continuity. Org's emphasis markers are similar -- they *look* like presentation directives, but at this point they're actually used as semantic directives. Probably not helpful, Eric
