line blocks results in uneven indents in LaTeX output

[priiduonu]

When converting from markdown to LaTeX the following snippet:

---
header-includes:
    - \usepackage{tgtermes}
---

this is the line block:

|    0 - A
|    1 - B
|    2 - C
|    3 - D

it produces the following output:

this is the line block:

~~~0 - A\\
\hspace*{0.333em}\hspace*{0.333em}\hspace*{0.333em}1 - B\\
\hspace*{0.333em}\hspace*{0.333em}\hspace*{0.333em}2 - C\\
\hspace*{0.333em}\hspace*{0.333em}\hspace*{0.333em}3 - D

When converting the output to PDF, it seems that with certain fonts the first row of the line block becomes less indented than the rest of the lines, caused by the ~ instead of \hspace. When I manually replace all ~ with \hspace*{0.333em}, all lines in the block are indented as expected.

pandoc 3.1.6.2

[jgm]

Background (from code comments on inlineListToLaTeX):

    -- nonbreaking spaces (~) in LaTeX don't work after line breaks,
    -- so we turn nbsps after hard breaks to \hspace commands.
    -- this is mostly used in verse.

[jgm]

Interestingly, they line up with the default font, but not with pgtermes.

[jgm]

Note that the \hspace approach loses "nonbreakingness," as well as the flexible resizability of a ~.

[priiduonu]

Correct. I've tried several non-default fonts, with the same result.

[jgm]

I think using

\strut ~~~

is a better approach.