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From: James Miller <james.ryland.miller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to escape an asterisk on org-mode
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:23:26 -0500
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Thank you very much. That was most informative.=20

Sent from James Miller's iPhone.=20

> On Jun 12, 2014, at 3:01 AM, Albert Krewinkel <tarleb@moltkeplatz.de> wrot=
e:
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> Hi James,
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> James Ryland Miller <james.ryland.miller@gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm trying to escape an asterisk character, i.e. "*" to use in regular
>> text. I.e., "The person wanted to say *BSD". And I don't want to use a
>> verbatim or code block because monospace is not what I need.
>>=20
>> I've tried \* to escape the character and it doesn't work. I'm on Org 8.2=
.5h.
>=20
> There is currently no way to escape characters in this way.  Using an
> asterisk like in your example should work fine -- except if the text
> after it makes it seem like the asterisk is actually markup. (e.g.
> "The person wanted to say *BSD.  Now this is bold*"
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> Whether an asterisk is treated as a symbol or as markup follows some
> rather complicated rules, but there are two simple rules that make the
> behavior predictable:
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> 1. Asterisks intended for markup must occur right before and after the
>   words that are to be printed in bold, i.e. *this is bold*, but
>   * neither this* is,  *nor this *.
>=20
> 2. Markup cannot span more than two lines:
>   *this
>   is not
>   bold*
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> HTH
>=20
> Albert
>=20
>=20
>=20
> --=20
> Albert Krewinkel
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