Even more interesting is that it changes my

 { = { SectionPages } - 1 }

to output: 

{ NumPages - 1 }

Tested with Pandoc 2.1.3 on macOS High Sierra 10.13.4

pandoc 2.1.3
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.4.2, texmath 0.10.1.1, skylighting 0.7.1


On Thursday, 19 April 2018 09:40:47 UTC-7, John MacFarlane wrote:
>
>
> Can you upload or link to your reference.docx (or one like it 
> that shows the problem), so we can have a look? 
>
> Paul Adams <paul....-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> > I've a DOCX reference doc that I'm using for MD to DOCX conversion. In 
> the 
> > reference DOCX I created a footer field 
> > 
> > Page { PAGE } of { = { NUMPAGES } - 1 } 
> > 
> > 
> > But in my output DOCX the footer field looks like this 
> > 
> > Page { PAGE } of { NUMPAGES - 1 } 
> > 
> > 
> > Which does not render the correct number of pages in the document. 
> > 
> > Is this a bug or a feature? If it's a feature, does anyone have the 
> > incantation that *will* work as intended? 
> > 
> > Thanks! 
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