you are putting it in :results output latex though, so it won't be changed on export. The contents of that block will be used verbatim I think in the latex export. Maybe you can change latex to raw instead. Then the org syntax will get converted to \textbf. Otherwise, I think you have to put the latex markup in the output. I still think it is a bug though, *step3:* does not act like a headline, and isn't valid headline syntax even at the beginning of a line. I don't think it should be getting escaped here. John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 10:59 AM Uwe Brauer wrote: > > > Uwe Brauer writes: > > > > I don't think anything is wrong: org quotes lines that look like > > headlines in the babel output by prepending the comma. > > But it shouldn't I want the output to be surrounded by * * because then > it is exported to latex as \textbf >