You are right, this is a recent change in emacs 22 (emacs 21 was more
forgiving.
In fact, suffixes are not needed, they are allowed, in order to use
this in fils where comments need a special end delimiter. But now
indeed prefixes are needed in each line, also in the middle of an
extended
I think there's an error in the org-mode manual. The snippet at the end
of section 9.2:
* COMMENT HTML style specifications
# Local Variables:
# org-export-html-style: "
p {font-weight: normal; color: gray; }
h1 {color: black; }
"
# End: ***
needs t
