Re: Pandoc selectively transfers glyphs from LuaLaTeX to DOCX

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

Pandoc's latex reader doesn't know anything about dblaccent.
But it can understand newcommand definitions, so you may
have some success simply adding the necessary macros to
the beginning of your document.  (Note that pandoc only
understands latex 'newcommand' macros, not plain tex
macros, so you can't just use dblaccnt.sty itself.  So
I'm not sure this helps much.)

+++ Sean Winslow [Jul 22 17 09:37 ]:
>   I am trying to convert a dissertation from LaTex to Word, in order to
>   comply with publisher requirements. Part of why I used LaTeX is my need
>   for complicated diacritics in transcriptions, which XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
>   and the dblaccent package made easy. Now, when I use pandoc to output
>   to docx, certain glyphs are missing. See, for example, \b{q} in Maqala
>   and \v{\d{C}} in Chelaqwot:
>
>   LuaLaTeX (or XeLaTeX) produces this:
>
>   [1][screenshot_latex.png]
>
>   But this is what I see in Word:
>
>   [2][screenshot_word.png]
>
>   Here is my MWE:
>   %!TEX TS-program = lualatex
>   %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>   \documentclass[a4]{memoir}
>   %packages
>   \usepackage{fontspec}
>   \usepackage{dblaccnt}
>   \usepackage{savesym}
>   \savesymbol{U}
>   \savesymbol{T}
>   \usepackage{semtrans}
>   %newcommands
>   \newcommand{\schwa}{ǝ}
>   \newcommand{\mekele}{M\"{a}\b{q}\"{a}l\"{a}}
>   \newcommand{\chelekot}{\d{\v{C}}el\={a}qwot S\schwa{}lasse}
>   \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
>   \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Brill}
>   \begin{document}
>   The two research locations visited were \mekele{} and \chelekot{}.\par
>   \end{document}
>   and the pandoc command I am using to convert it:
>
>   pandoc test.tex \
>
>       --from=latex \
>
>       --to=docx \
>
>       --output=test.docx \
>
>       --latex-engine=lualatex \
>
>       --reference-docx=test_ref.docx \
>
>       -S \
>
>       -R
>   The reference-docx is just the output, but changed to use Brill as the
>   font.
>   Is there any way to have pandoc pass along the special diacritics I
>   need? Re-doing all of them by hand will be a nightmare, and is a lot of
>   the reason I am learning pandoc.
>
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