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:
<math xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="block">
<mrow>
<munder>
<mrow>
<munder>
<mrow>
<mi>x</mi>
<mi>x</mi>
<mi>x</mi>
<mo>…</mo>
<mi>x</mi>
<mi>x</mi>
</mrow>
<mo>︸</mo>
</munder>
</mrow>
<mrow>
<mi>n</mi>
</mrow>
</munder>
</mrow>
</math>
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
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