Re: Org-syntax: emphasis and not English punctuation

[Max Nikulin]

On 03/12/2021 02:09, Juan Manuel Macías wrote:
> I believe, that emphasis marks are a part of Org that can be very
> shocking to new users. I mean, there is a series of behaviors that seem
> obvious and trivial in the emphasized text, but that in Org are not
> possible out of the box, unless you configure
> `org-emphasis-regexp-components'. Three quick examples. This in Org is
> not possible out of the box:
>
> #+begin_example
> [/emphasis/]
> ¡/emphasis/!
> ¿/Emphasis/?
> #+end_example

Maybe this issue should be considered independently of itra-word emphasis.

Second and third examples looks like they should be supported. Ihor 
mentioned treating punctuation in a more general way. It requires rich 
test set to estimate changes in heuristics. I suspect some problems 
since start and end patterns are not symmetric and I have not found a 
way to specify in regexp only punctuation marks that normally appears in 
front of words. Square brackets likely should be excluded somehow as 
well since they are part of Org syntax. I am unsure if it is possible to 
use just regexp without additional checks of candidates.

Ihor Radchenko. [PATCH] Re: c47b535bb origin/main org-element: Remove 
dependency on ‘org-emphasis-regexp-components’
Sun, 21 Nov 2021 17:28:57 +0800.
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