Re: supporting dinkus in markdown to epub and pdf

["Václav Haisman" <vhaisman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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On 23. 10. 19 6:30, Jeff Mcneill wrote:
> In markdown, I markup a dinkus as such:
>
> <p class="dinkus">&lowast; &lowast; &lowast;</p>

What version of Pandoc are you using? If I test with |echo '<p
class="dinkus">&lowast; &lowast; &lowast;</p>' | pandoc -f html -t latex
| od -t x1| I can see the UTF-8 characters U+2217 make it through into
the LaTeX output.

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>
> The class simply centers the text. 
>
> However, for pdf output, I have to mark up in latex as:
>
> \begin{center}
> * * *
> \end{center}
>
> This is not a true dinkus, as it uses an asterisk rather than a &lowast;. 
>
> I've got two issues here:
>
> 1. How do I make latex (and pdflatex) suppor the dinkus html or
> unicode entity?
>
> 2. Does anyone know a clever way of marking up the pandoc markdown so
> that I can use a single source to properly generate both epub and pdf
> dinkus?
>
> Note that if I leave the latex text in, the dinkus is not displayed in
> epub, and if I leave only the markdown in, then the literal `<p
> class="dinkus">&lowast; &lowast; &lowast;</p>` is displayed in pdf.
>
> Any thoughts are deeply appreciated.
>
> Note: because of some issues I am experiencing with xelatex and images
> in pdf (they don't display), I cannot use that to solve any of these
> issues.
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