Re: Org mode "style sheet" for software documentation

[Perry Smith]

> On Sep 9, 2022, at 00:09, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

I’m now retired with time on my hands so ping me if I can help somehow if / 
when the time
comes.  I sometimes turn off receiving from the list so drop me an email 
directly to
make sure I see it.

Perry

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