Re: Writing a patch for the emacs Tex interface

[Per Abrahamsen]

danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de (Lee Sau Dan) writes:

> But the deprecated method are still useful in some cases.  For example
> if your  emphasized or bold-ified things span  across paragraphs, then
> \emph or \textbf  may cause problems, whereas {\em  ...} and {\bf ...}
> works.  TeX will  choke if the parameters to a macro  (as in \emph) is
> too long,  but not when  a group  spans too wide  a scope (as  in {\em
> ..}).

I use environments in that case:

\begin{em}
  blah blah
\end{em}