bug: docx (containing table) to native and docx to markdown then to native is hugely different

[Kolen Cheung <christian.kolen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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I have a doc with 2 tables. I converted it to docx (with Word) and then 
trying to use pandoc to convert it to md.

I got some strange error, and when looking at the native I found this:

   1. pandoc -t native others/Mirrors-Lens.docx -o 
   others/Mirrors-Lens.native is kind of normal 
   2. pandoc -t markdown others/Mirrors-Lens.docx | pandoc -f markdown -t 
   native -o others/Mirrors-Lens-round.native is hugely different from the 
   above 

One of the main difference is that both tables (originally multi-columned) 
collapsed to 1 column only in the later round-trip. (Another annoyance to 
me is I actually tried to use my pantable2csv filter to capture the table 
from the docx directly into csv but resulted in error.)

For the 2nd table, I’m guessing the existence of <, > causes problems. For 
the 1st I have no clue since the native looks fine to me.

But since I do not own the copyright of the file, I am not going to share 
this publicly (isn’t really important but just in case…). If anyone is 
interested in help solving the puzzle / debug pandoc, please give me your 
github account and I can open a private repository and invite you. Thanks!
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