Re: Pandoc not maintaining newlines from .txt file to Word file

[John MACFARLANE <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

Try

-f markdown+hard_line_breaks

and the newlines in your document will be interpreted as
line breaks, if that's what you want.  (Don't include
raw '<br>' tags in the markdown; they will only be passed
on to HTML output, not docx.)

+++ Serena De Stefani [Jan 18 18 12:08 ]:
>   I am using Pandoc to integrate Scrivener with Zotero. I write in
>   Scrivener adding the Zotero citation keys, compile a .txt file, then
>   use Pandoc to convert the .txt file into a Word file in which the
>   citation keys are effectively translated in my preferred citation style
>   (APA in this case). Following the instructions on [1]this webpage, I
>   also set up "Marked 2" to show the output of what I was writing in
>   Scrivener using markdown.
>   Here comes the problem: newlines.
>   If I write in Scrivener:
>       I want a newline after this.
>       This should be a newline.
>   then Marked 2 is showing:
>       I want a newline after this. This should be a newline.
>   So then I wrote in Scrivener:
>       I want a newline after this.<br>
>       This should be a newline.
>   Marked 2:
>       I want a newline after this.
>       This should be a newline.
>   Great! Now I compile into a .txt file and I get:
>       I want a newline after this.<br>
>       This should be a newline.
>   OK, now it is time to use Pandoc.
>   I type the following command into the terminal:
>       pandoc -s -S --normalize --bibliography
>       ~/Dropbox/_Research/Master_Thesis/Master.bib --csl
>       ~/Dropbox/_Research/apa.csl
>       -f markdown -t docx -o trial.docx /Users/S/Desktop/test_st.txt
>   I get my .docx file (and when I do this with a full document, all my
>   citations are there, so that works!), but then I read:
>       I want a newline after this. This should be a newline.
>   Note that the <br> that was present in the .txt file is gone, but still
>   I did not get a newline.
>
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