Re: [O] How to escape an asterisk on org-mode

2014-06-12 Thread Nicolas Goaziou
Hello, James Miller writes: > Thank you very much. That was most informative. For completeness, you can "escape" an asterisk in Org using entities, in this case \ast{}, or \star{}: "The person wanted to say \ast{}BSD. Now this is bold*" Unfortunately, for obvious reasons, this will not work

Re: [O] How to escape an asterisk on org-mode

2014-06-12 Thread James Miller
Thank you very much. That was most informative. Sent from James Miller's iPhone. > On Jun 12, 2014, at 3:01 AM, Albert Krewinkel wrote: > > Hi James, > > James Ryland Miller writes: >> I'm trying to escape an asterisk character, i.e. "*" to use in regular >> text. I.e., "The person wanted t

Re: [O] How to escape an asterisk on org-mode

2014-06-12 Thread Albert Krewinkel
Hi James, James Ryland Miller 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 d

Re: [O] How to escape an asterisk on org-mode

2014-06-11 Thread Nick Dokos
James Ryland Miller 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 a

[O] How to escape an asterisk on org-mode

2014-06-11 Thread James Ryland Miller
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. Th