That's a font issue. You may need to specify a font with --pdf-engine-opts or try another PDF engine that works with HTML > On Jul 5, 2023, at 12:16 PM, Luveh Keraph <1.41421-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote: > > Thanks. What I see for ℋ is that a non-printable character is generated. When using --verbose --ascii -t html5 it appears as ℋ in the resulting file, and just an empty space (as far as I can see) in the PDF file. > > On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 12:41 PM John MacFarlane > wrote: >> — and ℋ will be parsed as unicode characters and these will be passed through to the HTML. >> You can check the intermediate HTML file (again it will be printed with --verbose) to confirm this. >> It may be that the program that is being invoked to go from HTML -> PDF (wkhtmltopdf ?) doesn't handle these characters properly. >> You could try adding the `--ascii` option which will force entities to be used. >> >> > On Jul 4, 2023, at 4:07 PM, Luveh Keraph <1.41421-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org > wrote: >> > >> > Thanks. I invoked pandoc -f gfm MyDoc. -o MyDoc.pdf and in the resulting PDF document the subscripts are still ignored. When running it with --verbose in the resulting output I saw numerous instances of >> > >> > [INFO] Not rendering RawInline (Format "html") "" >> > [INFO] Not rendering RawInline (Format "html") "" >> > >> > However, when I added -t html5 to the invocation the diagnostics above disappear, and the subscripts are indeed present in the converted PDF file. Thanks for the tip - it has indeed improved things. Now it is still the case that things like — or ℋ are ignored by pandoc. Any suggestions on how to get pandoc to process them? >> > >> > I am using the following: >> > >> > pandoc 3.1.4 >> > Features: +server +lua >> > Scripting engine: Lua 5.4 >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 3:50 PM John MacFarlane > wrote: >> > HTML tags should be passed through to HTML formats. >> > >> > Have you looked at the intermediate HTML produced? You can use --verbose to see it. >> > >> > This seems to work fine: >> > >> > % pandoc -t html5 >> > _A__m_ >> >

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>> > >> > PS. You probably want to use -f gfm if you're targeting GitHub Markdown. >> > >> > Pandoc version? >> > >> > >> > >> > > On Jul 3, >> > >> > > 2023, at 3:41 PM, Luveh Keraph <1.41421-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org > wrote: >> > > >> > > I have a Github Markdown document that contains HTML tags - mostly to do with special characters (e.g. ℋ) and stuff to place pictures where I want in the page. The thing is, pandoc seems to ignore the HTML tags. Is this a limitation intrinsic to pandoc, or is there any way to get pandoc to process such tags and produce the right output? >> > > >> > > The pandoc invocation that I am currently using for converting my Github Markdown documents to PDF is >> > > >> > > $ pandoc --resource-path=/home/abc/Repos.wiki -t html5 --pdf-engine=wkhtmltopdf --metadata pagetitle="MyDoc.md" --css github.css -o MyDoc.pdf >> > > >> > > The default invocation pandoc MyDoc.md -o MyDoc.pdf is not dealing with images properly (in that it sometimes rearranges surrounding paragraphs the wrong way) and it seems to be unable to deal with expressions like _A__m_, in that the and directives seem to be ignored. >> > > >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org . >> > > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/b1dae07b-11d1-4c98-8fcf-369f2b23a54cn%40googlegroups.com. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org . >> > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/529BC174-779A-4D98-BCC9-F59AEAAC2B9D%40gmail.com. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org . >> > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/CAFy1yb2op3Aq%3DP4L7xpNwPBBHtopKMx%2BurWz%2B-VQ%2B5Mh0CM%3DhQ%40mail.gmail.com. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org . >> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/F4D52E47-33F8-4A2C-9A56-679BD5240ABD%40gmail.com. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org . > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/CAFy1yb3hBrj7FUSM7wDiFY7hEB%2BGQ1PJSB4RiUo5YRNJnACZjA%40mail.gmail.com . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/2EAB1263-5AFF-41B5-A875-ABB40CACE349%40gmail.com.