Latex: Bold inside tt fails, tt inside bold works

[johnwhitington]

Explain the problem.

The following file:

\usepackage{beramono}
\documentclass[]{book}
\begin{document}
\texttt{\textbf{bold1}}
\textbf{\texttt{bold2}}
\end{document}

generates the following HTML:

<p><code>bold1</code> <strong><code>bold2</code></strong></p>

This is wrong, because both words should be bold. The standard tex tt font has no bold variant, which is probably why this bug was not noticed.

Pandoc version?

orge:mwe john$ pandoc --version
pandoc 2.14.0.1
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.22, texmath 0.12.3, skylighting 0.10.5.1,
citeproc 0.4, ipynb 0.1.0.1

Command line:

pandoc mwe.tex -o mwe.html

[jgm]

Well, the issue is that pandoc's internal document model for Code inlines (which we use for texttt) doesn't allow any formatting inside. This affects other formats as well, e.g.

% pandoc -f html -t native
<code><b>hi</b></code>
^D
[Plain [Code ("",[],[]) "hi"]]

[jgm]

The best we could do would be to parse

\texttt{\textbf{bold1}}

as Strong [Code "bold1"], pushing the inner formatting out to the outside (this might also require breaking into several Code elements with different formatting, in some cases).

[johnwhitington]

Thanks for the explanation. I have been following such an algorithm manually, converting for example:

\texttt{\textbf{if} x = 1 \textbf{then} 0 \textbf{else} x / 2}

to

\textbf{\texttt{if}}\texttt{ x = 1 }\textbf{\texttt{then}}\texttt{ 0 }\textbf{\texttt{else}}\texttt{ x / 2}

and it certainly takes a lot of typing! So, if this could be added to the feature request pile, that would be great.