Re: [O] org-mode wrongly parse asterisk (*) in a math equation as mark of bold font

[Zihan, Sheldon Liu]

Thanks. I forgot to mention that it also wrongly parsed when exporting to html at my place.

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:

On 26.6.2012, at 12:23, Sebastien Vauban wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> On 26.6.2012, at 10:45, Zihan, Sheldon Liu wrote:
>>
>>> I wrote the following line in org-mode, which contains two equations.
>>>
>>> $(Z^{*}_{m}, \cdot m)$  $(Z^{*}_{m}, \cdot m)$
>>>
>>> But the org-mode didn't identify them as equations. Instead, it highlight
>>> the part between the two *s, i.e. }_{m}, \cdot m)$ $(Z^{, making this part
>>> bold. Is this a bug of org-mode or my own mistake?
>>
>> Is this with the new exporter? I tried the old one just now, and it did this
>> correctly in both cases….
>
> AFAIU, the OP is not talking of export, only of how it's visible in the Org
> buffer itself.
>
> It's true that the equation is not shown as it should (in this case) because
> `*' are interpreted as bold markers.

Ah, OK.  Sorry for the Noise.  Difficult to fix, this would require a better parser.

One work-around would be to use \ast for the star..

- Carsten

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