Michael Hannon <jm_han...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Greetings. I've "inherited" an HTML document that uses the construct: > > <u>e</u>vent > > for instance, to underline the initial 'e' in the word. The context is > something like: > > <b>e</b> <u>e</u>vent > > to show that the choice of option 'e' corresponds to choosing an "event". > > In preparation for a revision of the document, I'm trying to create a *.org > file that will duplicate as much of the original style of the HTML document as > possible (i.e., when exported to HTML). > > I haven't been able to find a way to underline just the first character of a > word. For instance, > > _e_vent > > doesn't produce what I want. I tried: > > _e_ vent > > and that underlined the 'e' but, of course, left an unwanted space. > > Is there some way to do this? A better way? >
Not without some code I think. I can *almost* do it with babel, but there is some manual work involved. For example, in the following file: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * Table :noexport: #+TBLNAME: actions | abbrev | action | |--------+-----------------| | a | actionable | | b | bibulous | | c | califragilistic | #+begin_src python :results output :exports none :var table=actions print "* Results" print "#+begin_html" for row in table: print "<b>%s</b> <u>%s</u>%s<br/>" % (row[0], row[1][0:1], row[1][1:]) print "#+end_html" #+end_src --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I can evaluate the source block with C-c C-c and get a results block like this[fn:1]: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+results: #+begin_example * Results #+begin_html <b>a</b> <u>a</u>ctionable<br/> <b>b</b> <u>b</u>ibulous<br/> <b>c</b> <u>c</u>alifragilistic<br/> #+end_html #+end_example --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- then manually delete the #+{begin,end}_example lines and *then* export the resulting file. You might also be able to do something with radio tables or dynamic blocks but I have not gone down that path. Nick Footnotes: [fn:1] You might have to do something like this (setq org-babel-min-lines-for-block-output 1) to convince babel to produce an example block rather than colon-preceded literals.