how to get \big/ for latex conversion to word

how to get \big/ for latex conversion to word

[Vince West]

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working on a technical document in org-mode.  Amazing how well the export 
to docx works, but does seem to fail in one small part.  Wondering if it is 
just a missing feature:

if I have the following in an equation block it fails at the:

\big/

 in the .docx export, but works fine in the conversion to html.  It also 
works fine in direct export from org to pdf.  Based on the output it looks 
like its just an unsupported feature in this export path, but I'm not sure 
if its because of a limitation of docx or something that could be easily 
implemented, or if there is another way to do this.

$$\begin{equation}
x = a \big/ b
\end{equation}$$

here is the error output from the pandoc command:

> pandoc test.org -o test.docx
[WARNING] Could not convert TeX math '\begin{equation}
  x = a \big/ b
  \end{equation}', rendering as TeX:
  x = a \big/ b
            ^
  unexpected "/"
  expecting letter, white space, "(", ")", "[", "]", "\\{", "\\}", 
"\\lbrack", "\\lbrace", "\\rbrack", "\\rbrace", "\\llbracket", 
"\\rrbracket", "\\langle", "\\rangle", "\\lfloor", "\\rfloor", "\\lceil", 
"\\rceil", "|", "\\|", "\\lvert", "\\rvert", "\\vert", "\\lVert", 
"\\rVert", "\\Vert", "\\ulcorner" or "\\urcorner"

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Re: how to get \big/ for latex conversion to word

[John MacFarlane]

The library that handles math conversion is texmath
(jgm/texmath on GitHub).  You could put up an issue on
texmath's bug tracker.

Currently texmath's types don't allow manual sizing
to be represented.  A workaround could be to define
a macro so that \big is a no-op.  Pandoc should
apply this before passing the math to texmath:

    \newcommand{\big}{}