Re: Bug: escaping a star in a heading [7.01trans]

[Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com>]

Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz> writes:

> Escaping a star ('*') in a heading with a backslash works (i.e. exports
> to a literal '*') when exporting to PDF (via LaTeX; probably because
> LaTeX then processes it), but not when exporting to HTML.
>
> My situation is that I have a heading which refers to a (C) pointer
> variable, *x, "* A note on the variable *x".  When I exported this to
> HTML, everything under the heading appeared as part of the heading.  I
> then tried to escape the star with a backslash ("\*"), which eliminated
> the confusion with the heading and its body, but the backslash showed up
> in the heading: "* A note on the variable \*x".  This is obviously not
> what I want, I wanted the backslash to prevent the star from being
> treated by Org as rich-text markup (i.e. *bold*), and to be removed from
> the final product.
>

I am not able to reproduce this on

"GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
 of 2010-01-30 on noorul"

"Org-mode version 7.01trans (release_7.01h.464.g413c)"

I had this in an org file

* A note on the variable *x
  This is another testing

and used C-c C-e b

Thanks and Regards
Noorul