I want to publish a document with an \ae ligature to html and to pdf. The latex form "\ae robic" converts to the appropriate form and displays properly in pdf, but the html just drops the ligature.

Simple test case:

chriswri$ cat > test.txt

\ae robic

chriswri$ more test.txt

\ae robic

chriswri$ pandoc -t native test.txt

[Para [RawInline (Format "tex") "\\ae ",Str "robic"]]

chriswri$ pandoc -t html test.txt

<p>robic</p>

What's the best way around this - write a filter? finding some docs that will help? (I've found that ... is automatically converted to an ellipsis  - so \dots isn't necessary).

with thanks

Chris