Docx equations not italicized

[jrgcmu]

Math zones in docx output are displayed in an upright font, instead of italics which is customary for non-operator math.

[mpickering]

Can you please post an example which shows your problem.

[jrgcmu]

For example

Inline: $x$

Displayed: 

$$x$$

displays as:

The x's should be italicized.

[jgm]

+++ John Gardner [Apr 12 15 09:19 ]:

Math zones in docx output are displayed in an upright font, instead of italics which is customary for non-operator math.

Some information that would be helpful here:
What pandoc version?
What output format (HTML?)?
What options, if any, did you use to control how math is rendered in HTML (e.g. --mathjax?)?

With recent pandoc versions, the default math output in HTML will put
variables in italics.

[jrgcmu]

Output format is docx, tested using pandoc versions 1.13.1 and 1.13.2 using no options, just pandoc test.md -o test.docx. I could be wrong, but I believe prior versions resulted in italicized math.

[jgm]

+++ John Gardner [Apr 12 15 15:34 ]:

Output format is docx, tested using pandoc versions 1.13.1 and 1.13.2
using no options, just pandoc test.md -o test.docx. I could be wrong,
but I believe prior versions resulted in italicized math.

You are correct that there was a change. In prior versions, pandoc just "faked it" using unicode for equations. (And, even moderately complex equations could not be faked that way.)

Recent versions actually convert the latex math into an equivalent Word equation.

I'll look into jgm/texmath and see if this can be fixed there.

[jrgcmu]

Hopefully this helps: 1.12.4 is the last version that produces the expected behavior.

[jgm]

Okay, I've just released texmath 0.8.1, which should fix this issue.
If you installed pandoc using cabal, you can

cabal update
cabal install texmath --force
cabal install pandoc --reinstall

If you use binary packages, the fix will be in the next release.