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

[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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