In markdown, I markup a dinkus as such:
<p class="dinkus">∗ ∗ ∗</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 ∗.
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">∗ ∗ ∗</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.