From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert Krewinkel Subject: Re: How to escape an asterisk on org-mode Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 10:01:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87sinar1yd.fsf@caffelatte.moltkeplatz.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44441) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuzx8-0000yU-8F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:01:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuzx1-00082S-7i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:01:42 -0400 Received: from moltkeplatz.de ([85.214.95.47]:33437) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuzx0-000812-VF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:01:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: (James Ryland Miller's message of "Wed, 11 Jun 2014 23:29:31 -0500") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: James Ryland Miller Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi James, James Ryland Miller 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