Dear Giovanni,
Thanks much for your response. I'm using Org-mode version 6.36. I'm
guessing (based on what I read up) that it will not show up in emacs
until you load org-latex.
I also found a useful thread on this topic at:
http://osdir.com/ml/emacs-orgmode-gnu/2009-11/msg01028.html
which also indicated that @ and ! interfere with some regexp. The
solutions suggested there were to either:
1) Add these through the Org->Customize interface
or
2) Place in .emacs before org is loaded.
Neither of these however seem to help in my case. I also learn't about
org-submit-bug-report, and am including the full bug report below, in
case that suggests something I am missing.
I also thought of using alternate special characters as as emphasis
delimiters but coudn't readily find ones that weren't taken - just as
you also point out. At the moment, I've given up on trying to resolve
this and am directly using \alert{} where I need it.
Thanks again.
-Gaurav
Bug report - including configuration _
Emacs : GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.2.3790)
of 2008-09-06 on SOFT-MJASON
Package: Org-mode version 6.36
current state:
==
(setq
org-export-latex-after-initial-vars-hook '(org-beamer-after-initial-vars)
org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current)
org-export-latex-format-toc-function 'org-export-latex-format-toc-default
org-export-preprocess-hook '(org-export-blocks-preprocess)
org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe)
org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
org-export-first-hook '(org-beamer-initialize-open-trackers)
org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees
org-cycle-hide-drawers org-cycle-show-empty-lines
org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
org-export-latex-classes '(("beamer"
"\\documentclass[t]{beamer}\n\\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}\n\\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\n\\usepackage{pgf}
\n\\usepackage{amsmath}\n\\usepackage{amssymb}\n\\usepackage{graphicx}\n\\usepackage{graphics}\n\\usepackage{listings}\n\\usepackage{hyperref}"
org-beamer-sectioning)
("article" "\\documentclass[11pt]{article}"
("\\section{%s}" .
"\\section*{%s}") ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}")
("\\paragraph{%s}" . "\\paragraph*{%s}") ("\\subparagraph{%s}" .
"\\subparagraph*{%s}"))
("report" "\\documentclass[11pt]{report}"
("\\part{%s}" .
"\\part*{%s}") ("\\chapter{%s}" . "\\chapter*{%s}")
("\\section{%s}" . "\\section*{%s}")
("\\subsection{%s}" .
"\\subsection*{%s}") ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}"))
("book" "\\documentclass[11pt]{book}" ("\\part{%s}"
.
"\\part*{%s}") ("\\chapter{%s}" . "\\chapter*{%s}") ("\\section{%s}" .
"\\section*{%s}")
("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}"))
("beamer" "\\documentclass{beamer}"
org-beamer-sectioning))
org-export-preprocess-before-normalizing-links-hook
'(org-remove-file-link-modifiers)
org-mode-hook '((lambda nil (setq org-mouse-context-menu-function
(quote org-mouse-context-menu))
(when (memq (quote context-menu) org-mouse-features)
(org-defkey
org-mouse-map [mouse-3] nil)
(org-defkey org-mode-map [mouse-3] (quote
org-mouse-show-context-menu)))
(org-defkey org-mode-map [down-mouse-1] (quote
org-mouse-down-mouse))
(when (memq (quote context-menu) org-mouse-features)
(org-defkey
org-mouse-map [C-drag-mouse-1] (quote org-mouse-move-tree))
(org-defkey org-mouse-map [C-down-mouse-1] (quote
org-mouse-move-tree-start)))
(when (memq (quote yank-link) org-mouse-features) (org-defkey
org-mode-map [S-mouse-2] (quote org-mouse-yank-link))
(org-defkey org-mode-map [drag-mouse-3] (quote
org-mouse-yank-link)))
(when (memq (quote move-tree) org-mouse-features) (org-defkey
org-mouse-map [drag-mouse-3] (quote org-mouse-move-tree))
(org-defkey org-mouse-map [down-mouse-3] (quote
org-mouse-move-tree-start)))
(when (memq (quote activate-stars) org-mouse-features)
(font-lock-add-keywords nil (\` (((\, outline-regexp) 0 (\`
(face
org-link mouse-face highlight keymap (\, org-mouse-map))) (quote
prepend t))
(when (memq (quote activate-bullets) org-mouse-features)
(font-lock-add-keywords nil
(\` (("^[ ]*\\([-+*]\\|[0-9]+[.)]\\) +" (1 (\` (face
org-link
keymap (\, org-mouse-map) mouse-face highlight)) (quote prepend)
t)
)
(when (memq (quote activate-checkboxes) org-mouse-feat
