Idea

[sergiocorreia]

I've been thinking a bit about this issue and found two other possible alternatives:

1. Wrap the environments with divs instead, and then apply a filter to the divs (which is cleaner/easier than with codeblocks). There is at least one filter that does this (with the older pandocfilters package): https://github.com/chdemko/pandoc-latex-environment
2. Create a new tex command \Begin and \End that get ignored by Pandoc, as discussed here:

• A markdown_in_tex_blocks extension jgm/pandoc#2453 (comment)
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/3DP8NACzWjY

Ideally, I would go with option 1 if there was a neat way to create divs, but there is yet no agreement on that in the Pandoc project: jgm/pandoc#168

Cheers,
S

[mathematicalcoffee]

Thanks much.

I also think div is the natural way to go, but it's just a pain to write due to there being no nice shorthand for divs as you say. I wish there was. (I'm lazy, <div class="columns"> takes longer than \begin{columns} and given that I'm essentially writing a mostly-latex document anyway [beamerposter] just using markdown for things like bold/italic/links/lists rather than headings/structure, \begin{} and \end{} makes more sense).

Had not seen the trick you mention for 2., I'll check it out. Thanks!

[ickc]

You could take a look into 2 filters I wrote (modified from others) that uses div as LaTeX environment too:

• https://github.com/jgm/pandocfilters/blob/master/examples/latexdivs.py
• https://github.com/ickc/pandoc-amsthm

The first one is very simple syntax, the second one is bigger and more specialized.