The following question came up on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9051330/possible-bug-in-org-mode-export-of-item-with The following sample org file does not export as possibly expected. ,------------------------------------------- | #+TITLE: Bug? | #+OPTIONS: *:nil toc:nil author:nil | | - hello (*) I would like to have two items | - may (*) I please? `------------------------------------------- Instead of the two items being listed with (*) as a part of their items they are placed on a single line as though they were still being wrapped in bold tags. I tested this further and it occurs in LaTeX, HTML and ODT exports. ASCII does the right thing and exports it as two list items. HTML: ,---------------------------------------------------------------------- |