Converting HTML with break tags to Markdown leaves slashes in the output -- ?

Converting HTML with break tags to Markdown leaves slashes in the output -- ?

[Paul Potts]

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I have some text extracted from a Blogger blog post via a convoluted 
process into an HTML file, and I'm then translating that to Markdown.

Blogger's editor inserted various breaks (not really with my consent) 
instead of using paragraph tags; a fragment of the extracted HTML looks 
like this:

The goal is to be an independent and quite possibly contrarian reviewer. 
Check back soon!<br />
<br />

If I translate this using pandoc --from html --to markdown I get slashes 
left in the output.

The goal is to be an independent and quite possibly contrarian reviewer. 
Check back soon!\
\ 

Using --to markdown_strict removes these. That's a workaround but I am just 
confused as to whether preserving the slashes are intentional and why.

Thanks,

Paul

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Re: Converting HTML with break tags to Markdown leaves slashes in the output -- ?

[John MACFARLANE]

Backslash + newline is an alternative pandoc markdown syntax for
a line break within a paragraph.

+++ Paul Potts [Apr 28 16 15:19 ]:
>   I have some text extracted from a Blogger blog post via a convoluted
>   process into an HTML file, and I'm then translating that to Markdown.
>   Blogger's editor inserted various breaks (not really with my consent)
>   instead of using paragraph tags; a fragment of the extracted HTML looks
>   like this:
>   The goal is to be an independent and quite possibly contrarian
>   reviewer. Check back soon!<br />
>   <br />
>   If I translate this using pandoc --from html --to markdown I get
>   slashes left in the output.
>   The goal is to be an independent and quite possibly contrarian
>   reviewer. Check back soon!\
>   \
>   Using --to markdown_strict removes these. That's a workaround but I am
>   just confused as to whether preserving the slashes are intentional and
>   why.
>   Thanks,
>   Paul
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