Strange problem rendering '$'s

[mderouss]

Hi there,

I'm trying to write this :

Most bloggers aren't asking hard questions about the underlying technologies if they can get a sexy looking thing going for a few $$$ ( or no $$$ ).

You may agree or disagree :) . But my problem is that the dollars and the text between them are not rendered correctly in the HTML preview, no matter which renderer I choose, and no matter how I try to escape the dollar signs. This wasn't an issue using the same text in another tool ( ghostwriter ). I have a feeling that some math extension might be interfering here, but there's no way to turn off math stuff that I can see.

[mitya57]

Yes, $$ is syntax for math blocks (see https://github.com/retext-project/retext/wiki/Math).

You can either disable math completely by adding the following line to the beginning of your file:

<!-- Required extensions: remove_extra -->

or you can use $ instead of a raw dollar sign.

Also you can insert a zero-width space (U+200B) between the dollars: $​$​$.