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title:	Math whitespace commands and docx output
author:	Thomas J Duck
date:	2016‒11‒25 20:08

# pandoc -s -S mwcado.md -o mwcado.docx
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Hi there,

Pandoc seems to ignore math commands when the output format is docx (as viewed with LibreOffice 5.2.3.3).  For example, the \qquad in the following equation is ignored:

$$ y = mx + b \qquad (1) $$

Y otra ecuación sin el espacio qquad para cotejar diferencias:

$$ y = mx + b (1) $$

It works for LaTeX and html output.

This is a simple example: Whitespace is used for many purposes in writing equations.

Is this a bug, or am I missing something?  Is there a workaround?

Thanks,

Tom