David Boss <dave.b...@yahoo.com> writes: > Org mode is very crude: it indicates italics by surrounding text by slashes, > and so, > what if the original text contained slashes, intended as ordinary > text, not escape characters? What if the slashes themselves are > intended to be italicized?
You can then surround them by zero-width spaces. See https://orgmode.org/manual/Escape-Character.html#Escape-Character > Is there some way to tell Org mode to use different escape characters? No, currently. > Or to make ordinary emacs characters with the italic property, copy > and paste, like God intended? Probably htmlize? https://github.com/hniksic/emacs-htmlize Best, Ihor