Re: supporting dinkus in markdown to epub and pdf

["Václav Haisman" <vhaisman-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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On 26. 10. 19 10:06, Jeff Mcneill wrote:
>
>     Aha, I've found a fix, referenced
>     at: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48083724/pandoc-markdown-ignore-text-in-pdf-but-include-in-html-updated
>
>
>     Here is what I put, and the epub ignores the latex content and the
>     latex ignores the epub (html) content. Magical indeed.
>
>         `<p class="dinkus">&midast; &midast; &midast;</p>`{=html}
>         \begin{center} ∗ ∗ ∗ \end{center}
>
I wasn't actually aware of this syntax. Magical indeed.


>
> Thanks for your help. Your suggestions are very useful.
> --Jeff Mcneill
>
>
> On Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 2:24:17 PM UTC+7, Václav Haisman wrote:
>
>     On 26. 10. 19 9:09, Jeff Mcneill wrote:
>>
>>         I suggest you add the following to your LaTeX preamble:
>>
>>         |\usepackage{newunicodechar}
>>         \newunicodechar{∗}{\textasteriskcentered} |
>>
>>         and then use the raw character in your document
>>
>>         |\begin{center} ∗ ∗ ∗ \end{center} |
>>
>>         ​
>>
>>
>>         -- 
>>         VH
>>
>>
>>     This indeed fixes my issue with latex in terms of producing the
>>     correct dinkus display (&midast;) when md->pdf, however this
>>     still is discarded by pandoc when producing an md->epub. The
>>     lines are simply removed (there is no dinkus and no additional
>>     space added between the separated sections). -- 
>
>     You will have to write a filter that will implement the dingus
>     differently for each output format. Pandoc is not magical, it
>     cannot translate everything.
>
>     One more comment about the LaTeX dingus: I have found one more
>     sophisticated implementation, see
>     https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/101240/28495
>     <https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/101240/28495>.
>
>     ​
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     VH
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