I knew it must be something embarrassingly simple. Thanks very much!

On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 2:45:49 PM UTC-5, John MacFarlane wrote:

+++ Adam Tiller [Jan 28 15 11:11 ]:
>   Apologies for a novice question that's surely a result of user error.
>   I'm using pandoc to convert from markdown to latex. From the command
>   line I'm using "pandoc -f markdown -o content.tex filename.md"
>   According to the User's Guide, it seems like I should be able to use $P
>   \wedge Q$ in the markdown document and have that same line appear in
>   the latex version. But instead the generated latex is \(P \wedge Q\).

This is equivalent to `$P \wedge Q$` in LaTeX, so this
shouldn't cause any problems.