MathJax Newlines in Hugo & Pandoc

[finnlesueur]

Kia ora all,

I am writing some Markdown content which gets turned into two things:

1. Some reveal.js slides using Pandoc
2. A page in a Hugo site using Hugo

The problem is that I write my LaTeX equations like this:

\begin{align*}
    force &= mass\times acceleration \\
    F &= m \times a
\end{align*}

But the newlines are not rendered consistently. I have read about using \\\\\\ backslashes to get Hugo to output the correct newlines, but this creates completely incorrect Pandoc output.

Pandoc/reveal.js Output

Hugo Output

Is there a way to reconcile these two outputs?

[davidsneighbour]

@finnlesueur

\\\\\\

Did you try \newline instead of \\? That should be the “official” way for MathJax and maybe Pandoc plays better with that.

[finnlesueur]

Thanks! That worked a treat Had to do a huge find/replace but everything is playing nice now.

Cheers!