Re: [O] Defining a new emphasis

[Francesco Pizzolante]

Hi Nicolas,

>> I'm trying to define a new emphasis 
>
> Please don't. We're in the process of hard-coding emphasis markers.

OK. Understood.


>> that would work like org-code (=) except that it would export to
>> \textsf instead of \texttt in LaTeX.
>
> If that's related to export, you can tweak the export of verbatim
> (=text=) output.
>
> For example, in the new exporter (if you use development Org, you can
> (require 'org-export) and just call M-x org-export-dispatch), it just
> means to change \texttt into \textsf through verbatim filters (list of
> function applied to the output of each verbatim object).
>
> It's a way to have the last words over export engine.
>
> Here is the code:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (defun my-latex-verbatim-filter (text backend info)
>   "In `e-latex' backend, change \"texttt\" into \"textsf\"."
>   ;; No change for other backends.
>   (if (not (eq backend 'e-latex)) text
>     (replace-regexp-in-string "\\`\\\\texttt" "\\\\textsf" text)))
>
> (add-to-list 'org-export-filter-verbatim-functions 'my-latex-verbatim-filter)
> #+end_src
>
> If you call `org-export-dispatch' on a buffer containing:
>
>   =look_at:my~ti ny\reference^string=
>
> you will get:
>
>   \textsf{look\_at:my\textasciitilde{}ti 
> ny\textbackslash{}reference\textasciicircum{}string}

My goal is, in fact, to keep the default behavior of the '=' marker and redefine
the behavior of the '~' marker.

I'd like '~' to behave exactly the same way = does but using \textsf instead of
\texttt. Is it possible?

Thanks,
 Francesco