From: James Miller <james.ryland.miller@gmail.com>
To: Albert Krewinkel <tarleb@moltkeplatz.de>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to escape an asterisk on org-mode
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:23:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2958E633-0873-4CBD-8F6D-FC2FB3C4D9C3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sinar1yd.fsf@caffelatte.moltkeplatz.de>
Thank you very much. That was most informative.
Sent from James Miller's iPhone.
> On Jun 12, 2014, at 3:01 AM, Albert Krewinkel <tarleb@moltkeplatz.de> wrote:
>
> Hi James,
>
> James Ryland Miller <james.ryland.miller@gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm trying to escape an asterisk character, i.e. "*" to use in regular
>> text. I.e., "The person wanted to say *BSD". And I don't want to use a
>> verbatim or code block because monospace is not what I need.
>>
>> I've tried \* to escape the character and it doesn't work. I'm on Org 8.2.5h.
>
> There is currently no way to escape characters in this way. Using an
> asterisk like in your example should work fine -- except if the text
> after it makes it seem like the asterisk is actually markup. (e.g.
> "The person wanted to say *BSD. Now this is bold*"
>
> Whether an asterisk is treated as a symbol or as markup follows some
> rather complicated rules, but there are two simple rules that make the
> behavior predictable:
>
> 1. Asterisks intended for markup must occur right before and after the
> words that are to be printed in bold, i.e. *this is bold*, but
> * neither this* is, *nor this *.
>
> 2. Markup cannot span more than two lines:
> *this
> is not
> bold*
>
> HTH
>
> Albert
>
>
>
> --
> Albert Krewinkel
> GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-12 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-12 4:29 How to escape an asterisk on org-mode James Ryland Miller
2014-06-12 5:14 ` Nick Dokos
2014-06-12 8:01 ` Albert Krewinkel
2014-06-12 9:23 ` James Miller [this message]
2014-06-12 17:20 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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