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RTF - > Markdown peculiarities (to a newbie)...

[Kris Wilk]

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Greetings from a pandoc newbie...

I'm trying to use pandoc to convert some RTF files to markdown. My goal is 
to extract the text with **bold** and *italics* preserved and no other 
formatting.

Simply converting with "pandoc in.rtf -o out.md" produces a markdown file 
that's not quite what I need. For instance, here's a line from the output:

**[Scientific Name]{.underline}: ***Aplysia parvula *Morch, 1863

FIRST and foremost, pandoc tries to preserve the underlined text, which I 
don't want. Can this be disabled? I've tried the "bracketed_spans" and "
native_spans" extensions but this still processes the underlines as:

**<u>Scientific Name</u>: ***Aplysia parvula *Morch, 1863

SECOND, at least when I view this in VSCode's markdown preview, the bold 
and emphasis are not presented correctly I guess because they touch each 
other or have spaces (or both?)? It displays correctly if it's:

**Scientific Name:** *Aplysia parvula* Morch, 1863

I realize that the text in the RTF might have the bold/italic tagged 
weirdly but is there a way to deal with this? I have about 500 such files 
to process, so I'm looking for automated methods.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

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