Font change in \mbox in LaTeX math mode

[M A <marshall-g+3rYsS+t1LR7s880joybQ@public.gmane.org>]

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I'm converting from LaTeX to MS Word (.docx).  LaTeX lets you embed the 
command

\mbox{...}

in LaTeX math mode.  What goes inside the mbox is normal, non-math-mode 
text and commands.  In my case, I have some special terms that I use 
outside of mathmode, which are italicized, e.g. like

\textit{foo}

I need to embed exactly the same text, formatted in the same way, in math 
mode.  For example, in LaTeX, this is fine:

$2 \times \mbox{\textit{foo}}$

However, when using pandoc to convert to Word, I get this error:

[WARNING] Could not convert TeX math '2\times\mbox{\textit{foo}}', 
rendering as TeX:
  2\times\mbox{\textit{foo}}
               ^
  unexpected "\\"
  expecting "}", text, "{", "$", "$$", "\\(" or "\\["

It appears that \mbox is not treated as an escape out to normal non-math 
mode, so that things that you could normally do in LaTeX in math mode are 
not understood by pandoc.

Is this correct?  Is this just an unimplemented feature?  I know that 
pandoc can 't do everything that LaTeX does; that's OK.  Is there a 
workaround?

Thanks

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