Paul Rubin <pa...@hackyon.net> writes: > 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 for reporting! Fixed, on main. I also added a linter, so that M-x org-lint will report such cases. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=cf2349d14 https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=dc70878fc -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
