From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Noorul Islam K M Subject: Re: Bug: escaping a star in a heading [7.01trans] Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:45:03 +0530 Message-ID: <877hiy2i6w.fsf@noorul.maa.corp.collab.net> References: <4C79C7EC.5080006@no8wireless.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35318 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OsrTw-0007Cm-Vd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:16:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsrTv-0006X5-Qw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:16:37 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:53007) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OsrTv-0006Ws-Nz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:16:35 -0400 Received: by iwn33 with SMTP id 33so7285149iwn.0 for ; Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:16:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C79C7EC.5080006@no8wireless.co.nz> (Aidan Gauland's message of "Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:37:32 +1200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Aidan Gauland Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Aidan Gauland writes: > Escaping a star ('*') in a heading with a backslash works (i.e. exports > to a literal '*') when exporting to PDF (via LaTeX; probably because > LaTeX then processes it), but not when exporting to HTML. > > My situation is that I have a heading which refers to a (C) pointer > variable, *x, "* A note on the variable *x". When I exported this to > HTML, everything under the heading appeared as part of the heading. I > then tried to escape the star with a backslash ("\*"), which eliminated > the confusion with the heading and its body, but the backslash showed up > in the heading: "* A note on the variable \*x". This is obviously not > what I want, I wanted the backslash to prevent the star from being > treated by Org as rich-text markup (i.e. *bold*), and to be removed from > the final product. > I am not able to reproduce this on "GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12) of 2010-01-30 on noorul" "Org-mode version 7.01trans (release_7.01h.464.g413c)" I had this in an org file * A note on the variable *x This is another testing and used C-c C-e b Thanks and Regards Noorul