<p>Sometimes formatting symbols are not recognized immediately after a TeX expression, as in the <a href="https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/4686/sampling-with-non-uniform-costs/4697#4697">fourth paragraph here</a>.  (This is not the only instance I have encountered.  A work-around is to put a single linefeed between the TeX and the ensuing characters.)</p>

<p>Here's the offending text:</p>

<p><code>**The error rate depends on the state of the population**.  I interpret the problem to require that the *expected* error size be assured of not exceeding the limit $k$  *no matter what the state of the population may be.*  We cannot remove the word "expected" here, because (except for nearly exhaustive samples), the maximum error size can be arbitrarily close to 1 for large populations.</code></p>

<p>In the original the last group of asterisks, which should italicize a phrase, is rendered literally.  (It is interesting that they successfully create italicization within the 'PRE' block here!)  Finally, here is a copy of that paragraph.  It looks fine in editing mode preview but it is still rendered incorrectly in the standard view:</p>

<p><strong>The error rate depends on the state of the population</strong>.  I interpret the problem to require that the <em>expected</em> error size be assured of not exceeding the limit $k$ <em>no matter what the state of the population may be.</em>  We cannot remove the word "expected" here, because (except for nearly exhaustive samples), the maximum error size can be arbitrarily close to 1 for large populations.</p>
