Emphasizing text when composing mails?

Emphasizing text when composing mails?

[Tim Landscheidt]

Hi,

Gnus has the feature to display some words with a different
face if they are bracketed with certain characters (*bold*,
/italic/, _underline_).

Is there a command for the opposite direction when composing
mails, i. e. I write a paragraph, I want to mark up "for
example" as bold, so I select those words as a region, M-x
some-gnus-or-emacs-command, and the text changes to "*for*
*example*"?

Org does not appear to have a function for this, and
markdown-insert-bold of markdown-mode
(https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/) uses doubled
characters ("**bold**").

TIA,
Tim

Re: Emphasizing text when composing mails?

[Eric S Fraga]

Untested but maybe M-x org-emphasize?

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Eric S Fraga via gnus (Emacs 30.0.50 2023-09-14) on Debian 12.2

Re: Emphasizing text when composing mails?

[Tim Landscheidt]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> Untested but maybe M-x org-emphasize?

That looks suitable, thanks!  (I had only searched Org func-
tions for "bold".)

Tim

Re: Emphasizing text when composing mails?

[Emanuel Berg]

Tim Landscheidt wrote:

> Gnus has the feature to display some words with a different
> face if they are bracketed with certain characters (*bold*,
> /italic/, _underline_).

Yes, those are `gnus-emphasis-bold', `gnus-emphasis-italic'
and `gnus-emphasis-underline'.

If one feels the need to use them it can be a sign that the
discussion is getting too emotional.

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