From 18745585c1300cb5a900f06c854068961fa38d3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 10:52:46 -0800
Subject: LaTeX reader: `inlineCommand` now gobbles an empty `{}` after any
 command.

This gives better results when people write e.g. `\TeX{}` in Markdown.

    \TeX{} and \LaTeX{}

now works as expected with `pandoc -f markdown -t latex`.

Closes #2687.
---
 src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs')

diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
index 2acce8ece..9a1708331 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
@@ -422,7 +422,8 @@ inlineCommand = try $ do
            else if parseRaw
                    then return $ rawInline "latex" rawcommand
                    else return mempty
-  lookupListDefault mzero [name',name] inlineCommands
+  (lookupListDefault mzero [name',name] inlineCommands <*
+      optional (try (string "{}")))
     <|> raw
 
 unlessParseRaw :: LP ()
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