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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to escape an asterisk on org-mode
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 01:14:23 -0400
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James Ryland Miller <james.ryland.miller@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Org Mode:
>
> 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.
>
> I've tried \* to escape the character and it doesn't work. I'm on Org 8.2.5h.
>

*What* doesn't work?

Since you don't tell us, I tried exporting the following to latex and
html:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
* foo
The person wanted to say *BSD.

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

and it works fine in both cases (albeit in Org-mode version 8.2.6 (release_8.2.6-1122-g1d7c75)).

-- 
Nick