Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> writes: > The italic paragraph spread over two lines will work, but if you spread > it over three lines, it won't. You can tweak this (and other emphasis > settings) by changing org-emphasis-regexp-components, but that's a > somewhat hazardous and error-prone process - search the list for more.
Another approach might define a LaTeX environment for this, then use blocks in Org mode. The following four line paragraph gets set in italics. ,------------------------------------------------------------------------ | #+LATEX_CLASS: article | #+LATEX_HEADER: \newenvironment{myitalics}{\itshape}{\par} | | * Italic blocks | #+BEGIN_myitalics | The italic paragraph spread over two lines will work, but if you spread | it over three lines, it won't. You can tweak this (and other emphasis | settings) by changing org-emphasis-regexp-components, but that's a | somewhat hazardous and error-prone process - search the list for more. | #+END_myitalics `------------------------------------------------------------------------ hth, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com