I think the more obvious problem is that LaTeX doesn't handle UTF-8 well. 
If UTF-8 is properly supported then you don't need escape characters at 
all, you can just type the æ. These examples would work fine in both html 
and XeTeX/XeLaTeX:

echo "... ærobic" | pandoc -s -f markdown -t html -o test.html

echo "... ærobic" | pandoc -s -f markdown -t latex -o test.tex

You can see for yourself with:

echo "... ærobic" | pandoc -s -f markdown --latex-engine=xelatex -o test.pdf

Indeed, for me, Pandoc's default tex template outputs the unicode 
characters correctly, but this could be because my environment is set up to 
use XeLaTeX.

Hope that clarifies a bit?




On Monday, 21 September 2015 11:57:37 UTC+1, Chris Wright wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
>

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