In Pandoc markdown, I can use '$$' to start a display math environment. However, these equations are not numbered in latex so I hope to use the equation environment instead, like this:
\begin{equation}
x+1 = 2 \\
y+2 = 3
\end{equation}
That's fine if I convert markdown to latex. But it does't work when I convert it to HTML with Mathjax because Pandoc treats these lines as raw_latex ignores them in HTML.
I tried to forbid the raw_latex extension
pandoc -f markdown-raw_latex ...
This time the two equations are displayed in the same line because the backslashes are escaped by Pandoc so the "\" doesn't produce a newline correctly.
Note that the following code works fine when converted to HTML but produces compilation error in latex.
$$
\begin{equation}
x+1 = 2 \\
y+2 = 3
\end{equation}
$$
Is there any way to handle this problem?
Try the pandoc-eqnos filter. Labels may be attached to equations using attributes:
$$ y = mx +b $$ {#eq:description}
... and then referenced like this:
@eq:description
For tex/pdf output, LaTeX's native equation
environment and \label
and \ref
macros are used; for all others the numbers are hard-coded.
Instructions are given on the pandoc-eqnos page for how to install and apply the filter.