That seems to be a very old tutorial. It's indeed confusing that they host that on the official site. The official manual states equals is used for =verbatim=

That seems to be a very old tutorial. It's indeed confusing that they host that on the official site. The official manual states equals is used for =verbatim= quotes: https://orgmode.org/manual/Emphasis-and-Monospace.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Emphasis-and-Monospace.html