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Re: Org mode escape characters
From: |
Ihor Radchenko |
Subject: |
Re: Org mode escape characters |
Date: |
Mon, 11 Jul 2022 19:05:03 +0800 |
David Boss <dave.boss@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