Re: ligatures in html

[John MACFARLANE <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Ideally pandoc's latex reader would recognize \ae and
convert it to the proper character, so feel free to put
an issue on the bug tracker about this.

+++ 'Jason Seeley' via pandoc-discuss [Sep 21 15 07:50 ]:
>   Hello,
>   Ligatures like \ae are specific to the LaTeX (and thus PDF) writer, so
>   they don't work in any other formats. Pandoc just passes it through
>   unchanged. For HTML output, you can use an entity: `Æ` or
>   `æ`, for upper case or lower case. Another option is to use the
>   unicode character directly (how you do this depends on your system and
>   text editor; in Windows hold Alt and type 0230 on the number pad; in
>   vim type CTRL-K a e; use a character-map app, etc.) This should work
>   for most output formats. It'll work with LaTeX if you use XeLaTeX or
>   LuaLaTeX, as those allow unicode input.
>   Jason
>   On Monday, September 21, 2015 at 5:57:37 AM UTC-5, Chris Wright wrote:
>
>   I want to publish a document with an \ae ligature to html and to pdf.
>   The latex form "\ae robic" converts to the appropriate form and
>   displays properly in pdf, but the html just drops the ligature.
>
>   Simple test case:
>
>   chriswri$ cat > test.txt
>
>   \ae robic
>
>   chriswri$ more test.txt
>
>   \ae robic
>
>   chriswri$ pandoc -t native test.txt
>
>   [Para [RawInline (Format "tex") "\\ae ",Str "robic"]]
>
>   chriswri$ pandoc -t html test.txt
>
>   <p>robic</p>
>
>   What's the best way around this - write a filter? finding some docs
>   that will help? (I've found that ... is automatically converted to an
>   ellipsis  - so \dots isn't necessary).
>
>   with thanks
>
>   Chris
>
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