I looked over the emphasis expressions again and I really think it would be useful to allow non-emphasis symbol characters and single spaces.
I have experimented a bit and the following *should* work, but for some reason sends my EmacsW32 into an infinite loop when I open a .org file. (if em '("\\(\\W\\|^\\)\\(\\*\\([[:graph:]]+?[ ]?\\)+?[[:graph:]]+?\\*\\)\\(\\W\\|$\\)" 2 'bold)) Suggestions as to what the problem might be are welcome. Also, I think the change to \W as delimiters is probably a good idea, but something more explicit may make more sense. I am thinking along the lines of "[[:punct:][:space:]]" as I had suggested earlier. I guess it would really depend on where one would expect to see an emphasized word. Keep in mind that $ and % are part of character class \w for example. Alex. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode