On Oct 14, 2013, at 07:11 AM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Dror Atariah <dror...@gmail.com> writes: > >> 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 particula r long ones... Is it correct? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Dror > > I use autofill mode, and then change the value of > `org-emphasis-regexp-components'. That variable is a list, the fifth > element of which says how many newlines the emphasis markers will allow. > I set it to three: > > (setf (nth 4 org-emphasis-regexp-components) 3) Thanks for the tip. It somehow didn't help. I did "M-x org-reload" after setting this, but it didn't help spanning the italic in my case over several lines.
Cheers, Dror