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