Thanks. I forgot to mention that it also wrongly parsed when exporting to html at my place. On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On 26.6.2012, at 12:23, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > > > Hi Carsten, > > > > Carsten Dominik wrote: > >> On 26.6.2012, at 10:45, Zihan, Sheldon Liu wrote: > >> > >>> I wrote the following line in org-mode, which contains two equations. > >>> > >>> $(Z^{*}_{m}, \cdot m)$ $(Z^{*}_{m}, \cdot m)$ > >>> > >>> But the org-mode didn't identify them as equations. Instead, it > highlight > >>> the part between the two *s, i.e. }_{m}, \cdot m)$ $(Z^{, making this > part > >>> bold. Is this a bug of org-mode or my own mistake? > >> > >> Is this with the new exporter? I tried the old one just now, and it did > this > >> correctly in both cases…. > > > > AFAIU, the OP is not talking of export, only of how it's visible in the > Org > > buffer itself. > > > > It's true that the equation is not shown as it should (in this case) > because > > `*' are interpreted as bold markers. > > Ah, OK. Sorry for the Noise. Difficult to fix, this would require a > better parser. > > One work-around would be to use \ast for the star.. > > - Carsten > > > -- Regards, Zihan, Sheldon Liu ------------------------ The Media Computing Group (MCG) where Media Spectrum unleashes Digital Potential for Fun in Life. School of Creative Media (SCM) City University of Hong Kong