Trying to type a simple dollar sign

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I’m trying to type a simple dollar sign into my notes (in Live Preview mode.) The dollar sign disappears when cursor is away, and the remainder of the following text is a different color (green or black.) I’ve searched help, but most or all of the results deal with using inline math, not avoiding it. Does anyone know how to fix this ? I’ve never encountered a note taking app where I can’t type a common character, what am I missing ?

What I’m trying to do

example: " the total is $450."

Things I have tried

I’ve tried putting it in a code block, enclosing the dollar sign in backticks, disabling live preview mode ,and a bunch of other suggestions from Claude (LLM). The only thing that’s worked is to manually past a wide unicode dollar sign character (non-ascii), but that’s time consuming.

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Hi @breathe67 , welcome to the Obsidian community! Fellow user here.

Do you perhaps have a double dollar sign earlier in the document? Double dollar signs tells Obsidian you want to start a LaTeX / MathJax section.

If you are able to share an example of a whole page that has this problem, and a list of any plugins you’ve added to Obsidian, that would help us help you.

Here’s an example of MathJax creating some unexpected results:

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You can read more about LaTeX / MathJax in the help docs:

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Thanks for your reply Craig - no I don’t have $$ - but I found the issue: it was with a plugin I’d forgotten about, called ‘Text Color Tags’. It also processes the ‘$’ character, maybe interferes with inline math too.