backslash removes following text

[jgm]

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. echo '\Doe2008' | pandoc -w plain

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I'd expect 'Doe2008' but I see '2008'.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

pandoc 1.5.1 with citeproc and syntax highlighting on debian unstable.

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Issue #: 231
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2010-04-04T23:42:05.000Z
Closed On: 2010-04-05T01:54:49.000Z

[jgm]

Tried with pandoc 1.5.1.1 and its fixed there. Sorry about the noise.

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Created On: 2010-04-05T00:02:23.000Z

[jgm]

I think you're mistaken in thinking it's "fixed" - 1.5.1.1 behaves the same.
To see why it behaves that way, do
% pandoc -t native
\Doe2008
Pandoc (Meta {docTitle = [], docAuthors = [], docDate = []})
[ Para [TeX "\Doe",Str "2008"] ]

pandoc interprets a backslash followed by a string of letters as a raw LaTeX
command. These aren't printed in HTML output, which is why you see the text
disappear.

If you use '--strict' mode, you won't see this behavior.

So I don't think this is a bug -- it's a pandoc feature that it allows you to use raw
LaTeX (perhaps a misguided feature, but now well established). And I think it makes
sense to skip raw LaTeX in HTML output, though early versions of pandoc did not.

Does that seem reasonable?

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Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2010-04-05T00:39:43.000Z

[jgm]

Completely forgot about this feature, even so I use it all the time (so no its not
misguided). I probably used -w markdown when I tried 1.5.1.1 instead of -w plain.

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Created On: 2010-04-05T01:21:23.000Z

[jgm]

Google Code Info:
Author: [email protected]
Created On: 2010-04-05T01:54:49.000Z