Pandoc fails to convert embedded TEX formula

[Yuri05]

Translation.md contains the inline TEX formula Eq. 1: ${\Huge GMFE = 10^{\frac{\sum(|log(\frac{Pred}{Obs})|)}{n}} }$ which is properly displayed in MD: Eq. 1: ${\Huge GMFE = 10^{\frac{\sum(|log(\frac{Pred}{Obs})|)}{n}} }$

However when converting it to Word via pandoc I get the following:

pandoc --from=markdown+tex_math_dollars+superscript+subscript+raw_attribute -t docx -o output.docx Translation.md
[WARNING] Could not convert TeX math {\Huge GMFE = 10^{\frac{\sum(|log(\frac{Pred}{Obs})|)}{n}} }, rendering as TeX:
  {\Huge GMFE = 10^{\frac{\sum(|log(\frac{
         ^
  unexpected control sequence \Huge
  expecting "%", "\\label", "\\tag", "\\nonumber" or whitespace

and the formula is not properly erendered in Word: output.docx

Have tried it with the latest pandoc version 3.1.2 - same. Any ideas how to fix?

[Yuri05]

@pchelle I think it's a pandoc limitation in translating TEX and nothing we can do about it. Maybe it's somehow possible to tell pandoc "just ignore unknown TEX instructions and proceed anyway"

[pchelle]

Indeed, it seems that the translation limits to Math TeX only. Thus, no LaTeX tags setting fonts seem to work. I have tried to convert manually to raw openxml but I did not succeed in displaying the equation. I also tried to set the style of the reference document but did not find where the equation style could be defined.

[Yuri05]

Last tested with pandoc 3.1.11 (released 16.12.2023) - still cannot be rendered.

[pchelle]

LaTeX to OMML (word math langage) Pandoc conversion supports only the main LaTeX math package(s): https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/9403 I haven't found the list of LaTeX packages that are actually supported though