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From: Paul Rubin <paulr@hackyon.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: [BUG] manual should explain how to insert literal dollar sign
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 13:05:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49c5dcf6-26fa-5fe1-1778-c932d056eadb@hackyon.net> (raw)

Context: I wanted to mention in a document that a certain item cost 
"$12.98+$.77 s/h".  Since the period after the second $ is punctuation, 
the parsing heuristic interpreted that as LaTeX, giving math output in 
the html export.  So I spent a while muddling around trying to figure 
out how to escape the dollar sign, then sought help on IRC, where I got 
the answer: write \dollar and the Org entity parser will turn it into a 
literal dollar sign.  I would not have figured this out myself.

Requested fix: explain the \dollar escape in the Org manual section 
"LaTeX fragments".

Thanks!

Paul




             reply	other threads:[~2023-06-30 12:00 UTC|newest]

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2023-06-26 20:05 Paul Rubin [this message]
2023-07-01 10:04 ` [BUG] manual should explain how to insert literal dollar sign Ihor Radchenko

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