[TxMt] Re: (Mulit)Markdown Convert to LaTeX problem

[Alex Ross]

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.