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#### Emphasis and monospace

You can make words *bold*, /italic/, _underlined_, `=verbatim=` and `~code~`, and, if you must, ‘`+strike-through+`’. Text in the code and verbatim string is not processed for Org mode specific syntax, it is exported verbatim.

To turn off fontification for marked up text, you can set `org-fontify-emphasized-text` to `nil`. To narrow down the list of available markup syntax, you can customize `org-emphasis-alist`. To fine tune what characters are allowed before and after the markup characters, you can tweak `org-emphasis-regexp-components`. Beware that changing one of the above variables will no take effect until you reload Org, for which you may need to restart Emacs.