I make heavy use of <A NAME> html links to create links to internal sections within documents in Markdown. Unfortunately, Pandoc doesn't handle these well at all, despite the links being implemented correctly with the same methodology across the board. (HTML links to external destinations work fine.) Links can be very time-consuming to correct, since all my work will be wiped out if I run another conversion after edits and feedback. This isn't acceptable, of course.
This shouldn't be that hard. Otherwise, Pandoc does do a good job. But this relatively simple task is seemingly beyond its powers. Is there a solution?
This is the kind of thing that makes Markdown a consistently unwelcome format in my workflow.