Re: supporting dinkus in markdown to epub and pdf

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

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P.S., the ∗ is really what I want, so final format is as follows:

`<p class="dinkus"> &lowast; &lowast; &lowast; </p>`{=html}
`\begin{center} ∗ ∗ ∗ \end{center}`{=latex}

On Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 3:06:27 PM UTC+7, Jeff Mcneill wrote:
>
> Aha, I've found a fix, referenced at: 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48083724/pandoc-markdown-ignore-text-in-pdf-but-include-in-html-updated
>
> Here is what I put, and the epub ignores the latex content and the latex 
> ignores the epub (html) content. Magical indeed.
>
> `<p class="dinkus">&midast; &midast; &midast;</p>`{=html}
>> \begin{center} ∗ ∗ ∗ \end{center}
>
>
> Thanks for your help. Your suggestions are very useful. 
> --Jeff Mcneill
>
>
> On Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 2:24:17 PM UTC+7, Václav Haisman wrote:
>
>> On 26. 10. 19 9:09, Jeff Mcneill wrote:
>>
>> I suggest you add the following to your LaTeX preamble:
>>>
>>> \usepackage{newunicodechar}
>>> \newunicodechar{∗}{\textasteriskcentered}
>>>
>>> and then use the raw character in your document
>>>
>>> \begin{center}
>>> ∗ ∗ ∗
>>> \end{center}
>>>
>>> ​
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> VH
>>>
>>>
>> This indeed fixes my issue with latex in terms of producing the correct 
>> dinkus display (&midast;) when md->pdf, however this still is discarded by 
>> pandoc when producing an md->epub. The lines are simply removed (there is 
>> no dinkus and no additional space added between the separated sections). -- 
>>
>>
>> You will have to write a filter that will implement the dingus 
>> differently for each output format. Pandoc is not magical, it cannot 
>> translate everything.
>>
>> One more comment about the LaTeX dingus: I have found one more 
>> sophisticated implementation, see 
>> https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/101240/28495.
>> ​
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> VH
>>
>>

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