Re: Org mode escape characters

[Ihor Radchenko]

David Boss <dave.boss@yahoo.com> writes:

> Org mode is very crude: it indicates italics by surrounding text by slashes, 
> and so,
> what if the original text contained slashes, intended as ordinary
> text, not escape characters? What if the slashes themselves are
> intended to be italicized?

You can then surround them by zero-width spaces. See 
https://orgmode.org/manual/Escape-Character.html#Escape-Character

> Is there some way to tell Org mode to use different escape characters?

No, currently.

> Or to make ordinary emacs characters with the italic property, copy
> and paste, like God intended?

Probably htmlize? https://github.com/hniksic/emacs-htmlize

Best,
Ihor