supporting dinkus in markdown to epub and pdf

[Jeff Mcneill <jeffmcneill-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

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In markdown, I markup a dinkus as such:

<p class="dinkus">&lowast; &lowast; &lowast;</p>

The class simply centers the text. 

However, for pdf output, I have to mark up in latex as:

\begin{center}
* * *
\end{center}

This is not a true dinkus, as it uses an asterisk rather than a &lowast;. 

I've got two issues here:

1. How do I make latex (and pdflatex) suppor the dinkus html or unicode 
entity?

2. Does anyone know a clever way of marking up the pandoc markdown so that 
I can use a single source to properly generate both epub and pdf dinkus?

Note that if I leave the latex text in, the dinkus is not displayed in 
epub, and if I leave only the markdown in, then the literal `<p 
class="dinkus">&lowast; &lowast; &lowast;</p>` is displayed in pdf.

Any thoughts are deeply appreciated.

Note: because of some issues I am experiencing with xelatex and images in 
pdf (they don't display), I cannot use that to solve any of these issues.

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