### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/2300

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<sup>Originally posted by **mlarocca-git** September  5, 2022</sup>
I have been a Rmarkdown user for a long time. Recently I switched all Rmarkdown projects to Quarto. 

I have a minor problem and haven't found any solution in previous discussions.

In my reavealjs slides, I use a lot the pause within slides by inserting three dots separated by spaces.

There is no problem when I render a qmd file to HTML format. The "pause operator" does not appear in the final HTML. However, when I render a qmd file to a pdf via latex, the pause operator (the three dots) appears everywhere in the final pdf.

Is there any way to instruct Pandoc to ignore the string ". . ." when producing the final pdf?

Thank you so much for your help.
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2022-09-05T14:36:33Z
allenmanning
bug
closed
Pause within slides in revealjs
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/2302