Latex commands at beginning of line

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I’m having this strange, but reproducible problem. If I create something like:

Hadrons

Proton Protons are absolutely stable for our purposes and interact directly with the detector elements.

Neutron Neutrons, even though they are unstable, their lifetimes are measured in minutes and so for our purpose, they too are absolutely stable and interact directly with the detector elements. Charged Pion Charged pions are also unstable, but again, will live long enough to interact directly with the detector elements.

All that is processed into the .tex file is

Proton Protons are absolutely stable for our purposes and interact directly with the detector elements.

nπ± p0 K±,K0 B′sγ

That is, whenever I have a at the beginning of the line, everything after the first “stuff1” is swallowed…except for the next instances of and so on.

Surely I’m doing something stupid. If I leave the first characters in the line as NOT a <!-- et al set, then everything is fine.

Also…how in the world do I force the memoir article class? I don’t want the book!

thanks,

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I’m beginning to believe that \noindent is broken in mmd. If I do:

words words words

nothing is passed: words words words is swallowed.

If I do

It behaves as you’d expect. I can do that…but there also seems to be no way to pass a line feed through to LaTeX? If I do

then the \ is swallowed completely and does not appear in the LaTeX source.

the space space return trick does not work.

How to do this? if I put the whole thing in a bulleted list, then any is ignored.

thanks

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\noindent modifies a new paragraph, so it has to come at the beginning of the paragraph. Sticking it in the middle of a line won’t work.

I’ve been using

No spaces, and an empty block at the end. Seems to work fine. So (not tested):

Neutron $n$ Neutrons, even though they are unstable, their lifetimes are measured in minutes and so for our purpose, they too are absolutely stable and interact directly with the detector elements.
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Thanks. Yes, that was a typo left over from trying it first inside of the comments with the $n$ symbol (there are others which are greek). It was diagnosing the main problem that led me to add it in front and I failed to take it out of what now appears indeed to be a mid-point. That wasn’t the issue though.

I had installed mmd3 according to the dmg, but thought all I needed to do with the support files was to manually install them in to my texmf library file. Nope. I also needed to install the MultiMarkdown-Support-Mac-3.5 dmg.

Now all works as it should. No LaTeX is swallowed.