Timeline for How can I escape the * in org-mode to prevent bold fontification
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| S Sep 20, 2015 at 13:34 | history | suggested | suvayu | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Cleaner formatting |
| Sep 20, 2015 at 10:42 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Sep 20, 2015 at 13:34 | |||||
| Sep 19, 2015 at 6:26 | answer | added | Kaushal Modi | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 18, 2015 at 7:49 | comment | added | timor | @wvxvw's method also generated the &lowast characters in markdown export, which will probably work. The only thing I don't like about that solution is that I have to mix in explicit formatting/layout commands, which otherwise there is no need for. I would insert formatting instructions when what I really wanted was a way to tell it to ignore "semantic" instructions temporarily. | |
| Sep 18, 2015 at 0:20 | comment | added | user2699 | In that case, you could add your own verbatim style with a new marker, or modify the default verbatim style . | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 17:00 | answer | added | Kaushal Modi | timeline score: 13 | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 16:49 | comment | added | mutbuerger | The \ast{}shrug\ast{} mentioned by wvxvw is probably your best option. it exports to html as ∗shrug∗ and to latex as $\ast$shrug$\ast$ using the appropriate character entities. org-toggle-pretty-entities displays them as UTF8 characters in the org buffer. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 16:14 | comment | added | timor | Edited question to reflect that changing org-emphasis-alist is not really an option. I don't want to change everything bold that already exists in my .org file. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 16:13 | history | edited | timor | CC BY-SA 3.0 | changing syntax is not really an option |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 16:08 | comment | added | timor | Not exactly. =*shrug*= results in the exported HTML to be wrapped in a code-tag, and in markdown has backticks. I want it to be not formatted in any way at all. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 15:56 | comment | added | user2699 | It seems like suvayu's answer of just wrapping it in verbatim markers is what you want. Alternatively, you could modify org-emphasis-alist so that another character is used to bold text. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 15:40 | history | edited | timor | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 363 characters in body |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 15:34 | answer | added | user2699 | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 8:58 | answer | added | suvayu | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 8:41 | comment | added | wvxvw | If you are exporting this to LaTeX later, you could try \ast{}shrug\ast{} or \star{}shrug\star{}, similar, with HTML you could use entity encoding: a;, or if adding spaces before or after the asterisk is an option, that would work too. | |
| Sep 17, 2015 at 8:14 | history | asked | timor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |