Re: Org mode "style sheet" for software documentation

[Ihor Radchenko]

Perry Smith <pedz@easesoftware.com> writes:

> So… it seems I didn’t the two BORDER characters do not need to match.  So I’m 
> off trying to figure out a way to create more emphasis MARKERS.  In the old 
> days, we had only about 43 non-alphanumeric characters to play with but now 
> with Emacs being 8 bit clean for countless years we have another 128 
> characters and with UTF-8 we have bazillians more!
>
> So I’m gently poking around in the code to see how hard it would be to define 
> more.

We currently do not support extensions to emphasis, though we may do it
in future. See https://orgmode.org/list/87letvrege.fsf@localhost

Implementing new emphasis markers will require introducing a new syntax
object into org-element.el. Such object will unlikely be using a
single-char markers - single-char markers are problematic in numerous
edge cases; we should better introduce something closer to inline src
block syntax to allow arbitrary emphasis extensions.

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