Possible bug? Combine emphasis marker faces?

[Protesilaos Stavrou]

Hello everyone,

I have noticed that it is not possible to combine org-emphasis-alist
characters.  When applying multiple types of emphasis, the face
corresponding to the outermost pair overrides its innermost counterparts.

For example, */emphasise/* will render with the 'bold' face, while
/*emphasise*/ will use the 'italic' face.

Looking at the code, this seems to be intentional or unavoidable, while
I do not know of a way to blend faces dynamically.

Is there a way to get composite styles?  Such as bold and italic or
verbatim and underline, etc.?

All the best,
Protesilaos (or simply "Prot")

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M-x org-version: Org mode version 9.4.4 (release_9.4.4 @
/usr/share/emacs/28.0.50/lisp/org/)

M-x emacs-version: GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
Version 3.24.30, cairo version 1.17.4) of 2021-09-28

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