How to escape a dollar sign?

Question

I asked a question about a study of behavioral economics, and mentioned some example amounts given to participants. I was surprised to notice that I couldn't type a dollar sign followed by an amount of money, as it got converted to a TeX expression.

I wasn't aware that Cognitive Sciences has the TeX extension. But now I know it, how do I avoid it, so I can use the dollar sign to denote dollars, as opposed to formulae?

Answer 1

I fixed up your question. You just need to escape the dollar sign with a backslash \, so e.g.,

\$ 200,000