Re: Leading \qquad not rendering in PDF output

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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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