Re: Playing down the text in org-mode

[Juan Manuel Macías]

fatiparty--- via "General discussions about Org-mode." writes:

> _a geographical region that corresponds to present-day Israel and Palestine_

In any case, from a strictly (ortho)typographical point of view this is a
matter of nesting emphasis. If what you want to do is highlight a word
within another emphasis (an underline), the correct typographical
procedure is to italicize or bold that word:

_a /geographical/ region that corresponds to present-day Israel and
Palestine_

==>

\uline{a \emph{geographical} region that corresponds to present-day
Israel and Palestine}

What you can't do in Org is nest emphases of the same order:

#+begin_example
/The translators of the /Odyssey/ in the Hispanic tradiction/
#+end_example

It does not produce in LaTeX:

#+begin_src latex
  \emph{The translators of the \emph{Odyssey} in the Hispanic tradiction}
#+end_src

It is not a matter of a passage being de-emphasized (it doesn't work
that way), but rather that it is emphasized within another emphasis
text. In the above case, the way to emphasize Odyssey in a text already
emphasized in italics is with a normal font or with an underline (the
correct thing is with a normal font).

There are two separate questions here: how that is represented in Org
and how it should be exported.