I notice that even inside example blocks, some strings are still parsed as Org syntax, e.g. the asterisk becomes a bogus heading:
#+begin_example * _____ \| @ \ |_____/ /\ /\ #+end_example When I enclose the text in a region and use `org-insert-structure-template' to surround it with begin and end lines, a comma is prepended to the asterisk automatically (doc string of `org-escape-code-in-region' uses the word "append", which is usually used in the sense of "add to the end", though). But all I could find in the manual regarding "verbatim", "escaping" etc. are sections 12.2 and 16.3, neither of which mentions comma. I'd prefer if there were some kind of a _real_ verbatim block without need for escaping anything, but failing that, could this matter be clarified in the documentation? Thanks, Štěpán