[Orgmode] italic/subscript text properties

[Patrick Drechsler]

Hi,

I have a question concerning italic text properties. Here is an
example:

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* Testing italic text properties
  * /foo/, /bar/ <- ok
  * /foo/. <- ok
  * /foo/-method <- not ok
  * /foo/: <- not ok
* Testing subscript text properties within italic
  * normal: _foo
  * within italic: /_foo/ <- not italic
  * /foo_bar/ <- ok
  * /foo_/ <- not ok
#+OPTIONS: ^:nil
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

If text is followed by a comma (,) or a point (.) the text between
slashes appears italic. On the other hand text followed by minus (-)
or colon (:) is not emphasized. Is this the intended behaviour?

Furthermore the use of the underscore within italic highlighting works
fine when the underscore is inbetween words but not if it is at the
beginning or end of a word. Is this also expected behaviour?

These effects can be noticed within Emacs org mode as well as when
exporting to HTML.  

Sorry if I missed something obvious...

TIA

Patrick

Org-mode version 4.71
GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) of
2007-03-18 on trurl

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