Ah, OK.  I understand.  Thanks John.  

I found a workaround for my LaTeX code, but I'm happy to know what was 
happening, and what to look out for in the future.

On Tuesday, September 8, 2020 at 4:02:25 PM UTC-5 John MacFarlane wrote:

>
> Math conversion is handled by the texmath library. This is 
> specialized to math, and in the particular case you're interested 
> converts tex math to the math format used by Word. 
>
> Since it's specialized to math, it doesn't know how to handle 
> arbitrary non-math text of the sort that can go into an mbox. 
>
> There's not a good solution without changes in texmath's 
> architecture (one can imagine changing it so you pass in a parser 
> for normal text in the target format, which would be used inside 
> mboxes). 
>
> I wouldn't hold your breath, but you could put up an issue 
> on jgm/texmath on GitHub so we don't lose track. 
>
> M A writes: 
>
> > 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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