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}

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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.

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