Latex error with strikethrough about nbconvert HOT 5 CLOSED

So I think it's related to a problem with how \sout is defined in the ulem package for LaTeX (source: http://jansoehlke.com/2010/06/strikethrough-in-latex/), but not in the standard library.

I don't see anything including \sout when I grep nbconvert.

I wanted to test whether this was just a pandoc bug, and so made a minimal test case.

$ echo "~~anything~~" > test.md
$ pandoc -s -f markdown -t latex test.md > test.tex

and then noticed that pandoc includes the ulem package by default, as well as a bunch of other packages that are not included when one runs jupyter nbconvert strikeoutIssue.ipynb --to LaTeX which makes me think that a list of packages are being passed to pandoc to be explicitly included.

Going to try to find that list now…

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I am getting another similar error when using strikethrough in latex and trying to export to PDF. It appears to be the \require{cancel} that is triggering it...

! Undefined control sequence.
<argument>  \require 
                     {cancel} \ \frac {\partial \ell (\mu ,\sigma ^2)}{\part...
l.406 \end{align}
                 
? 
! Emergency stop.
<argument>  \require 
                     {cancel} \ \frac {\partial \ell (\mu ,\sigma ^2)}{\part...
l.406 \end{align}
                 
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
Transcript written on notebook.log.

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Are you directly writing cancel as part of your TeX? Because I found this set of macros in mathjax that might make it work in the browser but not on export if we aren't transforming from mathjax macros to proper TeX.

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Aha, are you using this package in a custom template?
http://ctan.org/pkg/cancel

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I had same problem with using that "cancel" package for writing math equations. Creating PDF fails when I put \require{cancel} code.

After I put following code in IPython's mathjax.tpl file, PDF was successfully created.

TeX: { 
    extensions: ["cancel.js"]
}

But new problem came up that created PDF does not contain the page with \require{cancel} code on it. Whole page is missing (PDF contains only 1 page instead of 2 pages). Whenever I delete that \require{cancel} code, created PDF then contains full 2 pages though there is no more strikeouts on equations. Can't figure out the solution yet.

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