# Behaviour of * and _ immediately after $ [duplicate] Possible Duplicate: Italics/emphasized text not working after a mathematical formula I've noticed that sometimes if I try to emphasize text right after a mathematical formula, it will be parsed incorrectly. For example, compare the third paragraph in the two versions here. In the first one, where I had written [...] remove either$(1,0)$or$(0,1)$[...] which produced text in which the * were included and the or was not italicized. I edited and inserted a carriage-return just after $(1,0)$ and just after *or*, and that resulted in an italicized or, fixing the problem. I've seen the same happen with bold text. I'm not sure why this happens. When I am previewing it seems to be okay, but not in the final product. I'll try it here as well: this one has no carriage return, when we remove either$(1,0)$or$(0,1)$. Trying it again with a carriage return, we can remove either$(1,0)$or$(0,1)\$.

• Seen this already? Nov 29 '10 at 0:30
• @J.M.: No, I hadn't. I did a quick search but obviously did not hit on the right keywords, so I didn't notice it. The carriage return clearly works just like the "workaround" suggested. Nov 29 '10 at 0:44
• I've gone ahead and edited the title of that question to include the keywords you might have searched for.
– user856
Nov 29 '10 at 3:06