Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> Hi Rainer,
>
> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> Andrea Rossetti <andrea.rossetti@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Rainer M Krug <Rainer <at> krugs.de> writes:
>>>> I would like to make three stars bold - is this possible? I have the
>>>> following table and at the moment, I get what is in the latex
>>>> column. But I would like to have what is in the last column.
>>>> 
>>>> | org             | latex                        | what I would like     |
>>>> | *3.96e-21 *** * | \textbf{3.96e-21 **} *       | \textbf{3.96e-21 ***} |
>>>> ...
>>>> 
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Hi! using the "pretty entity" \ast{} works for me in HTML and PDF:
>>>
>>> | *3.96e-21 \ast{}\ast{}\ast{}*  |
>>>
>>> Does it work for you too? Regards, Andrea
>>
>> Thanks - it does, indeed. Strange that it works for both export
>> backends.
>>
>>
>> But there are a few formating issues with this:
>>
>> 1) in tex, the spacing between two is different to the spacing between
>> three
>> 2) in html, the asterix are at the bottom and
>> 3) it is not very readable in org.
>
> To help with 3) have a look at http://orgmode.org/manual/Special-symbols.html (esp. C-c C-x \)

Thanks - good point.

Rainer

>
> Best,
> Andreas
>
>
>

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