Dear John, Just final confirmation after retesting: to get the transform to work from mathML to Word I needed both pandoc 2.1.1 (so presumably the fix you referred to) *and* the correct unicode symbol in the mathML. Thanks again, Emma On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 11:06:04 UTC, Emma Cliffe wrote: > > > Dear John, > > Okay, I think that I have solved the issue. The clue was in > https://hackage.haskell.org/package/texmath-0.8.6.5/changelog where it > states "Fixed overbrace, underbrace (#82). Previously we were using the > wrong character: U+FE37 instead of U+23DE. This didn't work in Word." If I > switch the unicode character in the input mathML then the conversion does > then work correctly in a simple test. > > The mathML does still render correctly so I guess I need to switch unicode > under and over braces. > > Sorry for the confusion and thanks for your time. > Emma > > > On Tuesday, 23 January 2018 10:27:53 UTC, Emma Cliffe wrote: >> >> Dear John, >> >> Sorry, I should have tested more extensively. You are correct, this does >> fix the LaTeX to Word conversion. However, we are actually converting >> MathML to Word. When I originally reported it I got the same incorrect >> result on conversion from LaTeX to Word and on conversion from MathML to >> Word so I reported both at once as I assumed, obviously incorrectly that >> the two issues had the same cause. I have now checked everything and the >> situation is: >> >> LaTeX to Word is now producing the correct output >> MathML to Word is still producing incorrect output >> >> The MathML is: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> x >> x >> x >> … >> x >> x >> >> ︸ >> >> >> >> n >> >> >> >> >> >> The above renders correctly in Firefox (native rendering) and using >> MathJax. I am pretty sure that this is the right MathML? >> >> I attach a screenshot of what I get when I render the above and the >> output of the transform to Word. I'll keep trying to work out what is >> actually happening. >> >> Many thanks for any insights, >> Emma >> >> On Monday, 22 January 2018 19:27:38 UTC, John MacFarlane wrote: >>> >>> Here's what I get when I convert >>> >>> $$ >>> \underbrace{xxx\ldots xx}_n >>> $$ >>> >>> from markdown to docx (see attached screenshot). >>> >>> That looks just right to me. I wasn't sure how to >>> interpret your "linear format" strings, so I'm not >>> sure what you're seeing. You can attach a screenshot. >>> >>> Your pandoc is compiled against a recent version >>> of texmath (0.10.1). >>> >>> >>> +++ Emma Cliffe [Jan 22 18 10:08 ]: >>> > Dear John, >>> > Thanks for the information below. For some reason I didn't see your >>> > response when you posted it. I have just now tried the latest >>> version >>> > of pandoc from the downloads page (pandoc 2.1.1 Compiled with >>> > pandoc-types 1.17.3, texmath 0.10.1, skylighting 0.6) and I am >>> getting >>> > the same problem. The output in linear format of Word is >>> ((xxx…xx)┬(} >>> > ))┬n which does not render correctly. This seems to be about the >>> same >>> > as what I was getting before: ((xxx…xx)┬⏟)┬n and not what I would >>> > expect to get: ⏟(xxx…xx)┬n >>> > From what I can tell the binary is using a version of texmath that >>> > contains the below mentioned fix? >>> > Thanks for any help you can give us. >>> > Emma >>> > On Tuesday, 3 October 2017 21:52:27 UTC+1, John MacFarlane wrote: >>> > >>> > This bug got fixed in texmath in February 2016. >>> > If you compile your pandoc against the most recent version >>> > of texmath, it should work. >>> > Anyway, this will be fixed in the pandoc 2.0 binary >>> > packages. Or you can try (at your own risk) a binary >>> > from pandoc-nightlies. >>> > +++ Emma Cliffe [Oct 03 17 02:36 ]: >>> > > Morning, >>> > > I am having trouble getting pandoc to convert underbrace >>> either >>> > into >>> > > Word or out of Word. I wondered if there is either something I >>> > am doing >>> > > wrong, whether this is a known problem (I can't find a report) >>> > or if >>> > > there is a work round for converting into Word. >>> > > If I try to convert: >>> > > \[ >>> > > \underbrace{xxx\ldots xx}_n >>> > > \] >>> > > for instance then what I get in Word (linear format) is: >>> > > ((xxx…xx)┬⏟)┬n >>> > > which does not render as a stretched underbrace. >>> > > I would expect to get: >>> > > ⏟(xxx…xx)┬n >>> > > which is typed directly into Word as \underbrace(xxx\ldots >>> xx)_n >>> > (then >>> > > space to trigger). You get the same linear interpretation if >>> you >>> > use >>> > > the mouse to create the structure. >>> > > The above is the direction I am interested in. I am actually >>> > converting >>> > > from MathML and see the same behaviour as in the cut down test >>> > of md or >>> > > tex to docx I have explained above. >>> > > For completeness I tried to convert in the other direction. >>> > Starting >>> > > from the above structure in Word I end up with: >>> > > \[\underset{n}{}\] >>> > > which has not only lost the xxx...xx but underbrace has become >>> > underset >>> > > which is not the same thing. >>> > > Does anyone know anything more about this? >>> > > Many thanks, >>> > > Emma >>> > > >>> > > -- >>> > > 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 [1][1]pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >>> > > To post to this group, send email to >>> > > [2][2]pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org >>> > > To view this discussion on the web visit >>> > > [3][3]https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/ >>> > f240aa27-3e64-430c- >>> > > 82b0-55e095a5b175%[4]40googlegroups.com. >>> > > For more options, visit [4][5]https://groups.google.com/ >>> > d/optout. >>> > > >>> > >References >>> > > >>> > > 1. mailto:[6]pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org >>> > > 2. mailto:[7]pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org >>> > > 3. 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