jgm/texmath — Issue #2: greek math gets output as operator not identifier
Author: rwst
Created: 2011-11-08 16:59:51+00:00
State: open

The input in pandoc markdown

text $a+\alpha$

when fed to the command

pandoc -f markdown t --mathml -o t.xml

results in

text a+α

i.e., the alpha is presented as operator while the MathML 3.0 spec says in 3.2.3.3:

The names of symbolic constants should be represented as mi elements:

π
ⅈ
ⅇ