Leading \qquad not rendering in PDF output

Leading \qquad not rendering in PDF output

[Asher Harvey-Smith]

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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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Re: Leading \qquad not rendering in PDF output

[Asher Harvey-Smith]

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correction - the generated tex is:


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

\(\text{if you're happy and you know it}\)\\
\(\qquad\text{clap your}\qquad\text{hands!}\)
On Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 6:07:07 PM UTC+1 Asher Harvey-Smith wrote:

> 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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Re: Leading \qquad not rendering in PDF output

[John MacFarlane]

Maybe this is a TeX issue?  Pandoc is simply passing it through verbatim.

> On Oct 15, 2022, at 10:09 AM, Asher Harvey-Smith <asherharveysmith-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> correction - the generated tex is:
> 
> 
> \hypertarget{heading}{%
> \section{heading}\label{heading}}
> 
> \(\text{if you're happy and you know it}\)\\
> \(\qquad\text{clap your}\qquad\text{hands!}\)
> On Saturday, October 15, 2022 at 6:07:07 PM UTC+1 Asher Harvey-Smith wrote:
> 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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Re: Leading \qquad not rendering in PDF output

['Nick Bart' via pandoc-discuss]

In fact, this has nothing to do with pandoc, but is a known behavior of LaTeX:

See https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/318454/quad-not-working-after-using-newline.

Suggested solution: Use `\hspace*{2em}` instead of `\qquad`. (Do use the starred version, otherwise this will not work.)

Re: Leading \qquad not rendering in PDF output

[Asher Harvey-Smith]

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Thank you! \hspace* works great.

On Sunday, October 16, 2022 at 10:24:24 AM UTC+1 Nick Bart wrote:

> In fact, this has nothing to do with pandoc, but is a known behavior of 
> LaTeX:
>
> See 
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/318454/quad-not-working-after-using-newline
> .
>
> Suggested solution: Use `\hspace*{2em}` instead of `\qquad`. (Do use the 
> starred version, otherwise this will not work.)
>

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