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Alexey Shiklomanov
Alexey Shiklomanov

Reputation: 1652

Tilde over n when when converting from markdown to latex with pandoc

I have a markdown document that I convert to PDF via pandoc's latex engine. I'm trying to render an n with a tilde over it, as in "niño", with markdown like the following:

ni\~{n}o

...but this just gets rendered in the PDF as "ni~no" -- i.e. the tilde gets interpreted literally. I've also tried escaping the backslash (ni\\~{n}o), surrounding everything in brackets (ni{\~{n}}o), and basically what I think is every possible combination of escaping characters in this sequence, but nothing works. It also fails even when the sequence is on its own (i.e. \~{n}).

But, other similar sequences that are based on letters rather than symbols work just fine (e.g. Otter\r{a} gets rendered correctly to "Otterå"). Pandoc is specifically failing to handle the tilde (or maybe more generally non-letter-based latex character sequences -- I haven't tested others).

The command I'm using to build the pdf is pandoc file.md -o file.pdf. I've also tried specifying -f markdown+raw_tex, but it still fails (nor should I need to, since the \r{a} works without it, and I think raw_tex is enabled by default anyway).

Any thoughts? I know I can use xetex to just enter these characters directly, but that's not really a satisfying solution...

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2551

Answers (1)

Alexey Shiklomanov
Alexey Shiklomanov

Reputation: 1652

Besides using the ñ character directly (which apparently works in native Pandoc because it's magic!), an alternative is to create a simple LaTeX \newcommand for forcing native TeX interpretation.

\newcommand{\tex}[1]{#1}

ni\tex{\~n}o

Thanks to John McFarlane for introducing me to this clever workaround!

Upvotes: 6

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