pandoc MD->Tex Wrapper

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• substitute \href with \url, which seems more wider deployed.
• substitute verbatim with Verbatim, which reserves indent better.

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• Add default preambles to make the output compile-able.
• Pre-processing figures.

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The "\href" is a more powerful notation. Use package, "\usepackage{hyperref}".

pandoc leave an extra "" at the end of item list.

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Two more flaws detected:

• If the list notation is supplemented by more than 4 blanks, pandoc will translate it to verbatim. e.g.

   *      <- there are more than 4 blanks before words. 

• The ordered list is output as

%\begin{enumerate}[1.]

The "[1.]" seems extra and just do not compile at my side, by default. I don't want to waste time tweaking it. It seems pandoc is not a good baseline to start. The HTML output of markdown translator looks well structured. Probably translate it to latex is easier.

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More trials:

• There are some general parsing issues. By imposing some writing conventions, they can be avoided. e.g. 3rd header + immediate code embedding.
• pandoc can convert md to pdf smoothly at most times. The flawed intermediate result (.tex) is annoying...

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• pandoc can automatically deal with formulae! Depending on the output, it uses different strategies. e.g. for pdf, fully parsing using tex facilities; for html, use special character set if possible, o/w show it literally.

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pandoc:

• Can not handle remote figures.
• Try to parse texts in html tags.