>>> "JK" == John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I believe you are seeing org's escaping at play. It puts a comma in front
> of the leading *. It must think that it is a heading in org-syntax, and so
> it escapes it to avoid some issues.

> I think here it is a bug since that is not a heading. can you use some
> other leading character? I don't think the * have any significance in latex.

The point is after executing the matlab code, I export the org file to
latex and then the * * gets translated to \textbf{} which is what I
want.

I could use / / instead obtaining italics or emp, but I want bold

I could write \textbf but I want to write as little latex commands as
possible (that is the work of the converter) instead I wan to use org
mode syntaxis for the font highlighting.