Dror Atariah <dror...@gmail.com> writes: > On Oct 14, 2013, at 07:11 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >> Dror Atariah <dror...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Dear org-moders, >>> >>> It might be terribly simple, but I failed to find a solution. How can >>> I mark several words as bold (or emphasized or any similar markup), >>> in particular if the words spans over *more then one line*? >>> >>> A similar problem can occur when one is pasting a long line into an >>> org-mode buffer and then, after it is being broken into shorter >>> lines, you try to make it bold. >>> >>> The documentation (http://orgmode.org/org.html#Emphasis-and-monospace >>> ) states that this kind of markup is aimed at words - so it might not >>> support sentences and in particula r long ones... Is it correct? >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Dror >> >> I use autofill mode, and then change the value of >> `org-emphasis-regexp-components'. That variable is a list, the fifth >> element of which says how many newlines the emphasis markers will allow. >> I set it to three: >> >> (setf (nth 4 org-emphasis-regexp-components) 3) > Thanks for the tip. It somehow didn't help. I did "M-x org-reload" after > setting this, but it didn't help spanning the italic in my case over several > lines.
Hmm. I do find it sometimes needs to be "poked" a few times to really take -- sometimes reloading org more than once, or calling "org-mode" in a buffer that's already org-mode. Often hitting M-q to refill the paragraph is enough to do the trick. It won't show the italic over even a single line break? E
