diff --git a/config.org b/config.org
index 917b61d..8d84069 100644
--- a/config.org
+++ b/config.org
@@ -3105,11 +3105,11 @@ Since we've disabled =+pretty=, we need to add the packages we do want from it,
 
 *** Emphasis
 
-When marking text for =*emphasis*=, Org mode normally only allows emphasized sections to span 2 lines. This strikes me as needlessly limited, so let's bump up that number to 20 lines.
+When marking text for =*emphasis*=, Org mode normally only allows emphasized sections to span 2 lines. This strikes me as needlessly limited, so let's bump up that number to 20 lines. We can also use this variable to modify Org's parser to support sub/superscripts immediately after emphasized text, which is useful.
 
 #+begin_src emacs-lisp
-(after! org
-  (setf (nth 4 org-emphasis-regexp-components) 20))
+(setq org-emphasis-regexp-components
+      '("-[:space:]('\"{" "-[:space:].,:!?;'\"_^)}\\[" "[:space:]" "." 20))
 #+end_src
 
 *** Popups