Re: org-mode wrongly parse asterisk (*) in a math equation as mark of bold font

["Zihan, Sheldon Liu" <updogliu@gmail.com>]

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Thanks. I forgot to mention that it also wrongly parsed when exporting to
html at my place.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 26.6.2012, at 12:23, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
>
> > Hi Carsten,
> >
> > Carsten Dominik wrote:
> >> On 26.6.2012, at 10:45, Zihan, Sheldon Liu wrote:
> >>
> >>> I wrote the following line in org-mode, which contains two equations.
> >>>
> >>> $(Z^{*}_{m}, \cdot m)$  $(Z^{*}_{m}, \cdot m)$
> >>>
> >>> 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?
> >>
> >> Is this with the new exporter? I tried the old one just now, and it did
> this
> >> correctly in both cases….
> >
> > AFAIU, the OP is not talking of export, only of how it's visible in the
> Org
> > buffer itself.
> >
> > 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
>
>
>


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