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From: Albert Krewinkel <tarleb@moltkeplatz.de>
To: James Ryland Miller <james.ryland.miller@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to escape an asterisk on org-mode
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:01:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sinar1yd.fsf@caffelatte.moltkeplatz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPbT+CPL-B6Q3pCcTj_ZwXFeoGJhzU0r9iKCK68hC0kX2maPw@mail.gmail.com> (James Ryland Miller's message of "Wed, 11 Jun 2014 23:29:31 -0500")

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



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next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2014-06-12  8:01 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 [this message]
2014-06-12  9:23   ` James Miller
2014-06-12 17:20     ` Nicolas Goaziou

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