(Mulit)Markdown Convert to LaTeX problem

[Gerd Knops-2]

The conversion to LaTeX replaces any occurrences of '...' to /ldots.  
That causes problems if the dots are followed by text, such as

        ...and then there were three.

as we and up with '\ldotsand'. Not knowing much of TeX, what is the  
proper way to shield a variable from surrounding text?

Thanks

Gerd
 

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[Alex Ross-8]

On Oct 6, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:

> The conversion to LaTeX replaces any occurrences of '...' to /ldots.
> That causes problems if the dots are followed by text, such as
>
> ...and then there were three.
>
> as we and up with '\ldotsand'. Not knowing much of TeX, what is the
> proper way to shield a variable from surrounding text?

i think I would replace with {\ldots} instead.

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[Gerd Knops-2]

On Oct 6, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Alex Ross wrote:

> On Oct 6, 2008, at 6:26 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:
>
>> The conversion to LaTeX replaces any occurrences of '...' to /ldots.
>> That causes problems if the dots are followed by text, such as
>>
>> ...and then there were three.
>>
>> as we and up with '\ldotsand'. Not knowing much of TeX, what is the
>> proper way to shield a variable from surrounding text?
>
> i think I would replace with {\ldots} instead.

Cool, thanks!

Now how can I fix that in xhtml2latex.xslt?

If I replace
              <xsl:text>\ldots</xsl:text>
with
             <xsl:text>{\ldots}</xsl:text>

the braces end up escaped, eg '\{\ldots\}'.

Thanks

Gerd


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[Pete Becker]

On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:

> The conversion to LaTeX replaces any occurrences of '...' to /ldots.
> That causes problems if the dots are followed by text, such as
>
> ...and then there were three.
>
> as we and up with '\ldotsand'. Not knowing much of TeX, what is the
> proper way to shield a variable from surrounding text?
>

Just put a space after the macro: \ldots and

   -- Pete

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[Gerd Knops-2]

On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Pete Becker wrote:

> On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:
>
>> The conversion to LaTeX replaces any occurrences of '...' to /ldots.
>> That causes problems if the dots are followed by text, such as
>>
>> ...and then there were three.
>>
>> as we and up with '\ldotsand'. Not knowing much of TeX, what is the
>> proper way to shield a variable from surrounding text?
>>
>
> Just put a space after the macro: \ldots and

Work, thanks. Seems the extra space has no bearing on the resulting  
typographie.

Gerd


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[Pete Becker]

On Oct 6, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:

>
> On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Pete Becker wrote:
>
>> On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:
>>
>>> The conversion to LaTeX replaces any occurrences of '...' to /ldots.
>>> That causes problems if the dots are followed by text, such as
>>>
>>> ...and then there were three.
>>>
>>> as we and up with '\ldotsand'. Not knowing much of TeX, what is the
>>> proper way to shield a variable from surrounding text?
>>>
>>
>> Just put a space after the macro: \ldots and
>
> Work, thanks. Seems the extra space has no bearing on the resulting
> typographie.
>

Right. Macros swallow whitespace that follows them. That's so you can  
tell them apart from the following text, as in your example. If you  
need the space you have to put in a backslash: '\ldots\ and' would put  
a space between the dots and the 'and'.

   -- Pete

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[Fletcher T. Penney]

FYI  - recent versions of MMD use {\ldots}, so if you're having this  
problem you probably have an old version installed.


Fletcher


On Oct 6, 2008, at 4:36 PM, Pete Becker wrote:

> On Oct 6, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:
>
>>
>> On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:13 PM, Pete Becker wrote:
>>
>>> On Oct 6, 2008, at 12:26 PM, Gerd Knops wrote:
>>>
>>>> The conversion to LaTeX replaces any occurrences of '...' to /
>>>> ldots.
>>>> That causes problems if the dots are followed by text, such as
>>>>
>>>> ...and then there were three.
>>>>
>>>> as we and up with '\ldotsand'. Not knowing much of TeX, what is the
>>>> proper way to shield a variable from surrounding text?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just put a space after the macro: \ldots and
>>
>> Work, thanks. Seems the extra space has no bearing on the resulting
>> typographie.
>>
>
>
> Right. Macros swallow whitespace that follows them. That's so you can
> tell them apart from the following text, as in your example. If you
> need the space you have to put in a backslash: '\d\ and' would put
> a space between the dots and the 'and'.
>
>   -- Pete
>
> Roundhouse Consulting, Ltd.
>
>
>
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