On Oct 13, 2013, at 22:22 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > Dnia 2013-10-13, o godz. 21:58:20 > Dror Atariah <dror...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > >> >> On Oct 13, 2013, at 21:38 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote: >> >>> Dnia 2013-10-13, o godz. 20:49:30 >>> Dror Atariah <dror...@gmail.com> napisał(a): >>> >>>> Dear org-moders, >>>> >>>> It might be terribly simple, but I failed to find a solution. How >>>> can I mark several words as bold (or emphasized or any similar >>>> markup), in particular if the words spans over *more then one >>>> line*? >>>> >>>> A similar problem can occur when one is pasting a long line into an >>>> org-mode buffer and then, after it is being broken into shorter >>>> lines, you try to make it bold. >>>> >>>> The documentation >>>> (http://orgmode.org/org.html#Emphasis-and-monospace) states that >>>> this kind of markup is aimed at words - so it might not support >>>> sentences and in particular long ones... Is it correct? >>> >>> Not really an answer, but does visual-line-mode help in your use >>> case? >> It does help. Doesn't org-mode has some sort of dedicated >> line-breaking mechanism? How would you turn it into a complete >> solution? > > Not that I know of. Basically, "lines" may be /visual/ (i.e., broken by > the display engine at spaces etc., but the whole paragraph is one long > line in the file) or /physical/ (i.e., with newline characters at the > end of each line). In Emacs, you an use M-q to "fill" a paragraph > (more or less, convert from visual to physical lines), and something > along the lines of C-u 9 9 9 9 9 C-x f M-q to "unfill" a paragraph. > (There are also "unfill" functions (quod google), though they are not > part of stock Emacs.) > > There is an ongoing discussion on which is better, too long to repeat > any of the arguments here. For a LaTeX-centric approach, see e.g. > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4376/good-strategy-for-line-breaks-with-paragraphs-of-latex-source > (note that Emacs's longline-mode was a predecessor of visual-line-mode). In this case I suppose I will revert to visual-line-mode, just like I have in my LaTeX buffers.
> And indeed, bold/italic spanning more than a few words might not be a > good idea. And in cases it is, it's problably better to define a > specialized "environment" (in LaTeX lingo) - like one for theorems > (which are often typeset in italics). What is the org-mode's equivalent of LaTeX's environment? That COULD be very helpful. Thanks, Dror
