Thank you very much. That was most informative. Sent from James Miller's iPhone.
> On Jun 12, 2014, at 3:01 AM, Albert Krewinkel <tar...@moltkeplatz.de> wrote: > > Hi James, > > James Ryland Miller <james.ryland.mil...@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. >> >> I've tried \* to escape the character and it doesn't work. I'm on Org 8.2.5h. > > 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*" > > 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: > > 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 *. > > 2. Markup cannot span more than two lines: > *this > is not > bold* > > HTH > > Albert > > > > -- > Albert Krewinkel > GPG: 8eed e3e2 e8c5 6f18 81fe e836 388d c0b2 1f63 1124
