Christoffer Stjernlöf <a...@xkqr.org> writes: > The variables opening-re and closing-re in > org-element--parse-generic-emphasis are hard-coded, and this is not what > is expected by the user who has modified the value of > org-emphasis-regexp-components.
This variable only affects fontification. The Org markup is not customizeable for emphasis. We will likely obsolete and remove this variable in the future. > Background and details: > > One convenient trick to apply emphasis to parts of a word is to separate > that part with zero-width non-breaking spaces. This allows us to draw > attention to puns like "the ex_cite_ment one feels when one's work is > getting cited" by underlining the "cite" part of the word > "excitement".[1] > Org doesn't support this out of the box but by adding the zero-width > non-breaking space to org-emphasis-regexp-components we can get this to > work. I just tried, and ex*cite*ment works just fine. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode maintainer, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
