Hi Juan Manuel,

I agree that some tricks exist in order to prevent this behavior.
Nevertheless, I think that this bug has been introduced recently (I never
noticed it before) and has to be corrected properly (as this is a really
basic use of org-mode).
Unfortunately, I can barely understand elisp... so writing a patch is far
away from what I can do :/

Best,
Leo

Le dim. 26 sept. 2021 à 14:57, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net>
a écrit :

> Hi Léo,
>
> Léo Ackermann writes:
>
> > Hi!
> > I noticed that in org@888aaa97c0ce331097787333d0d712dd6e4d078f, the
> > following happens:
> > When writing `Consider $a^{*}$ and $b^{*}$` in an org-mode buffer, the
> > two stars match together, causing "and" to appear in bold case.
> >
> > Any idea to fix this unwanted behavior ?
>
> You can insert a zero width space character (U+200B), to prevent that
> segment is fontified as emphasis [see the Manual in the section `Escape
> Character']. It is enough with insert the character after one of the
> asterisks: M-x insert-char RET 200b RET. I also recommend that you look
> at this section on Timothy's blog `This Month in Org':
> https://blog.tecosaur.com/tmio/2021-05-31-async.html#easy-zero-width
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
>