Re: Getting pandoc to convert Github Markdown documents with HTML tags to PDF

[Luveh Keraph <1.41421-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Thanks. What I see for ℋ is that a non-printable character is
generated. When using --verbose --ascii -t html5 it appears as ℋ in
the resulting file, and just an empty space (as far as I can see) in the
PDF file.

On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 12:41 PM John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher@gmail.com>
wrote:

> &mdash; and &Hscr; will be parsed as unicode characters and these will be
> passed through to the HTML.
> You can check the intermediate HTML file (again it will be printed with
> --verbose) to confirm this.
> It may be that the program that is being invoked to go from HTML -> PDF
> (wkhtmltopdf ?) doesn't handle these characters properly.
> You could try adding the `--ascii` option which will force entities to be
> used.
>
> > On Jul 4, 2023, at 4:07 PM, Luveh Keraph <1.41421-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks. I invoked pandoc -f gfm MyDoc. -o MyDoc.pdf and in the resulting
> PDF document the subscripts are still ignored. When running it with
> --verbose in the resulting output I saw numerous instances of
> >
> > [INFO] Not rendering RawInline (Format "html") "</sub>"
> > [INFO] Not rendering RawInline (Format "html") "<sub>"
> >
> > However, when I added -t html5 to the invocation the diagnostics above
> disappear, and the subscripts are indeed present in the converted PDF file.
> Thanks for the tip - it has indeed improved things. Now it is still the
> case that things like &mdash; or &Hscr; are ignored by pandoc. Any
> suggestions on how to get pandoc to process them?
> >
> > I am using the following:
> >
> > pandoc 3.1.4
> > Features: +server +lua
> > Scripting engine: Lua 5.4
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 3:50 PM John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > HTML tags should be passed through to HTML formats.
> >
> > Have you looked at the intermediate HTML produced?  You can use
> --verbose to see it.
> >
> > This seems to work fine:
> >
> > % pandoc -t html5
> > _A_<sub>_m_</sub>
> > <p><em>A</em><sub><em>m</em></sub></p>
> >
> > PS. You probably want to use -f gfm if you're targeting GitHub Markdown.
> >
> > Pandoc version?
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jul 3,
> >
> > > 2023, at 3:41 PM, Luveh Keraph <1.41421-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a Github Markdown document that contains HTML tags - mostly to
> do with special characters (e.g. &Hscr;) and stuff to place pictures where
> I want in the page. The thing is, pandoc seems to ignore the HTML tags. Is
> this a limitation intrinsic to pandoc, or is there any way to get pandoc to
> process such tags and produce the right output?
> > >
> > > The pandoc invocation that I am currently using for converting my
> Github Markdown documents to PDF is
> > >
> > >  $ pandoc --resource-path=/home/abc/Repos.wiki -t html5
> --pdf-engine=wkhtmltopdf --metadata pagetitle="MyDoc.md" --css github.css
> -o MyDoc.pdf
> > >
> > > The default invocation pandoc MyDoc.md -o MyDoc.pdf is not dealing
> with images properly (in that it sometimes rearranges surrounding
> paragraphs the wrong way) and it seems to be unable to deal with
> expressions like _A_<sub>_m_</sub>, in that the <sub> and </sub> directives
> seem to be ignored.
> > >
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