On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:37:33 -0600, John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> wrote:
> What are your settings for #+options: tex:t/nil latex:t/nil ?

I tried all combinations of those two options, but it made no
difference. I also tried LaTeX:verbatim, but that didn't help either.

> -- $nth$
> -- $n^{th}$
> -- $n$ th (note the space)
> 
> How do those work?

All of those work fine. It really seems to be the lack of a space
afterwards that triggers $ being escaped.

> 
> After some behavior with $ that I didn't like, it was pointed out that
> I could use \(math\) as well. Perhaps '\(n\)th' would work for you?

That works, thank you!

Nevertheless, I'd still be interested if anyone
has a way to disable this escaping behavior completely.

Cheers,
Daniel