Variable: org-emphasis-alist

org-emphasis-alist is a customizable variable defined in org.el.gz.

Value

(("*" bold) ("/" italic) ("_" underline) ("=" org-verbatim verbatim)
 ("~" org-code verbatim) ("+" (:strike-through t)))

Documentation

Alist of characters and faces to emphasize text.

Text starting and ending with a special character will be emphasized, for example *bold*, _underlined_ and /italic/. This variable sets the face to be used by font-lock for highlighting in Org buffers. Marker characters must be one of */_=~+.

You need to reload Org or to restart Emacs after customizing this.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Org version
8.0.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/org/org.el.gz
(defcustom org-emphasis-alist
  '(("*" bold)
    ("/" italic)
    ("_" underline)
    ("=" org-verbatim verbatim)
    ("~" org-code verbatim)
    ("+" (:strike-through t)))
  "Alist of characters and faces to emphasize text.
Text starting and ending with a special character will be emphasized,
for example *bold*, _underlined_ and /italic/.  This variable sets the
face to be used by font-lock for highlighting in Org buffers.
Marker characters must be one of */_=~+.

You need to reload Org or to restart Emacs after customizing this."
  :group 'org-appearance
  :set 'org-set-emph-re
  :version "24.4"
  :package-version '(Org . "8.0")
  :type '(repeat
	  (list
           (choice
	    (const :tag "Bold" "*")
            (const :tag "Italic" "/")
            (const :tag "Underline" "_")
            (const :tag "Verbatim" "=")
            (const :tag "Code" "~")
            (const :tag "Strike through" "+"))
	   (choice
	    (face :tag "Font-lock-face")
	    (plist :tag "Face property list"))
	   (option (const verbatim)))))