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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-mode wrongly parse asterisk (*) in a math equation as mark
 of bold font
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:29:49 +0200
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On 26.6.2012, at 12:23, Sebastien Vauban wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>=20
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> On 26.6.2012, at 10:45, Zihan, Sheldon Liu wrote:
>>=20
>>> I wrote the following line in org-mode, which contains two =
equations.
>>>=20
>>> $(Z^{*}_{m}, \cdot m)$  $(Z^{*}_{m}, \cdot m)$
>>>=20
>>> 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?
>>=20
>> Is this with the new exporter? I tried the old one just now, and it =
did this
>> correctly in both cases=85.
>=20
> AFAIU, the OP is not talking of export, only of how it's visible in =
the Org
> buffer itself.
>=20
> 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