From da57775171d3575816f9b6a0d77fe6872e5d89b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:03:11 -0800
Subject: LaTeX reader: Ignore empty groups {}, { }.

Closes #322.
---
 src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

(limited to 'src/Text/Pandoc')

diff --git a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
index 02c7361d7..c965c65ce 100644
--- a/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Pandoc/Readers/LaTeX.hs
@@ -574,6 +574,7 @@ inline =  choice [ str
                  , ensureMath
                  , rawLaTeXInline'
                  , escapedChar
+                 , emptyGroup
                  , unescapedChar
                  , comment
                  ] <?> "inline"
@@ -677,6 +678,13 @@ escapedChar = do
   result <- escaped (oneOf specialChars)
   return $ if result == Str "\n" then Str " " else result
 
+emptyGroup :: GenParser Char st Inline
+emptyGroup = try $ do
+  char '{'
+  spaces
+  char '}'
+  return $ Str ""
+
 -- nonescaped special characters
 unescapedChar :: GenParser Char st Inline
 unescapedChar = oneOf "`$^&_#{}[]|<>" >>= return . (\c -> Str [c])
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