Leading \qquad not rendering in PDF output

[Asher Harvey-Smith <asherharveysmith-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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I have the following markdown:


# heading

$\text{if you're happy and you know it}$  
$\qquad\text{clap your}\qquad\text{hands!}$  


I'm converting this to pdf using

pandoc filename.md -o filename.pdf

and in the output pdf the \qquad between 'clap your' and 'hands' renders 
correctly, but the leading \qquad before 'clap your' appears to be missing 
as there is no space before the line begins. I tried generating tex instead 
of pdf and got the following:


\hypertarget{heading}{%
\section{heading}\label{heading}}

\(\text{if you're happy and you know it}\)\\
\(\qquad\text{clap your hands!}\qquad\pi\)


So the leading \qquad seems to be present in the intermediate stage. Does 
anybody know why it's not rendering in the output?

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