Thanks.

I can confirm that enclosing in '$' works. In fact using 
\textsuperscript{2} also works in text mode.

> $ pandoc -f markdown -t native
\begin{tabular}
1 & $2^2$ \\
2 & 3 \\
\end{tabular}
^D
[RawBlock (Format "latex") "\\begin{tabular}\n1 & $2^2$ \\\\\n2 & 3 
\\\\\n\\end{tabular}"]

> $ pandoc -f markdown -t native
\begin{tabular}
1 & 2\textsuperscript{2} \\
2 & 3 \\
\end{tabular}
^D
[RawBlock (Format "latex") "\\begin{tabular}\n1 & 2\\textsuperscript{2} 
\\\\\n2 & 3 \\\\\n\\end{tabular}"]

On Tuesday, April 5, 2016 at 10:13:57 PM UTC+5:30, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
> `2^2` isn't legal LaTeX outside of math mode.  Try `$2^2$`. 
>
> +++ Mohammed Haris Minai [Apr 05 16 07:52 ]: 
> >   Here is what I tried: 
> >   Without superscript: 
> >   > $ pandoc -f markdown -t native 
> >   \begin{tabular} 
> >   1 & 2 \\ 
> >   2 & 3 \\ 
> >   \end{tabular} 
> >   ^D 
> >   [RawBlock (Format "latex") "\\begin{tabular}\n1 & 2 \\\\\n2 & 3 
> >   \\\\\n\\end{tabular}"] 
> >   With superscript: 
> >   > $ pandoc -f markdown -t native 
> >   \begin{tabular} 
> >   1 & 2^2 \\ 
> >   2 & 3 \\ 
> >   \end{tabular} 
> >   ^D 
> >   [Para [Str "\\begin{tabular}",SoftBreak,Str "1",Space,Str 
> "&",Space,Str 
> >   "2^2",Space,Str "\\",SoftBreak,Str "2",Space,Str "&",Space,Str 
> >   "3",Space,Str "\\",SoftBreak,Str "\\end{tabular}"]] 
> >   I was expecting a RawBlock (format "latex") for the second invocation 
> >   as well. What am I doing wrong? 
> > 
> >   --  
>
>

-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/e808f198-ca65-472f-86ea-5e72d172a0bb%40googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.