Re: Parsing entities in org input

[Albert Krewinkel <albert+pandoc-9EawChwDxG8hFhg+JK9F0w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Alex,

apologies for the sluggish reply.

Axel Kielhorn <a.kielhorn-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> I use entities instead of Unicode characters since they are easier to type on Windows.
> When converting to HTML I get the following Warnings, but the characters appear in the output:
>
> [warning] Skipped '\times ' at line 1 column 8
> [warning] Skipped '\Omega ' at line 1 column 8
> [warning] Skipped '\pm ' at line 1 column 5
> [warning] Skipped '\cdots ' at line 1 column 8
> [warning] Skipped '\permil ' at line 1 column 9
> [warning] Skipped '\le ' at line 1 column 5
> [warning] Skipped '\mu{}' at line 1 column 6
> [warning] Skipped '\geq ' at line 1 column 6
> [warning] Skipped '\Rightarrow ' at line 1 column 13

I believe that this is a side-effect of pandoc's new feature to warn
whenever information might be lost. The org parser also tries to read
the command as if it was a MathML entity, so it still succeeds. The org
reader should handle this better, please open an issue on github for
this: <https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues>

> The greek letters are rendered as italic, despite the fact that they
> are not in math mode.

This is most certainly a bug in the org reader, please report this as
well in a separate issue. Note that Emacs org-mode exporters aren't
entirely consistent in this regard, either: The LaTeX exporter renders
the mu in italics, while the HTML exporter uses a normal font. However,
both exporters render the omega in a normal font, while pandoc uses
italics; this is a bug in the org reader.

Cheers,

Albert