Re: ligatures in html

["Stefan Björk" <stefan.bjork-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Sorry for cutting in, but I wonder why using TeX macros in markdown in the
first place? As Jason and David points out, the 'Æ' ligature is available
in UTF-8 (and latin-1 as well, I think, since 'æ' is a characther of its
own in some Nordic countries), and since all modern variants of TeX, namely
XeTeX and LuaTeX, more or less requires UTF-8. By far, the easiest solution
should be to simply use the 'æ' character in markdown -- unless there are
some requirements of ascii-only markdown?

And yes, pandoc converts three dots '...' to an ellipsis '…', but '...' is
not a TeX macro.

tis 22 sep. 2015 kl 11:53 skrev <david.pw.smith-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>:

> 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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