No worries. I should have mentioned where you could get the info than just saying it’s there
It is mentioned in the manual in a subtle way. After you read this thread then you’d understand the wordings in the manual means it is not bijective. (I forgot what wording it uses, but the problem is that the info is there but sometimes not immediately recognizable. May be it didn’t use the word lossy, but did mention it’s limitation.)
It is also frequently mentioned in this pandoc-discuss. And in fact I was in your shoes asking for this years ago and wrote a summary on this here. Ie rather than searching the whole web, searching pandoc-discuss would be more fruitful.
But sometimes the search here aren’t great, ironically I think searching in google with a phase of pandoc-discuss might help narrow it down better.
Also, I share your frustration that stuffs we ask/mention are almost always out there but just that we can’t discover that. So rather than tempting others to correct you (that the info does exist), simply asking it might be better, and that’s what pandoc-discuss is for. Unlike GitHub issue where people should obey much stricter rule of not emitting noise (frequently violated in pandoc’s issue tracker unfortunately and people are too kind to suppress them), pandoc-discuss is for any pandoc related questions, repeated or not.
On Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 2:22:48 PM UTC-7 Jeffrey Wang wrote:
Great, thanks for the insight everybody, especially John's confirmation seals the deal.
In response to "there's actually lots of info about this", I apologize that Google's search engine was not strong enough to find me this information. I also apologize that I did not invent Google and add semantic search to it. I promise I have tried hard to search for this information before bothering anybody, and I very much appreciate the explicit clarification.
There’s actually lots of info about this. Pandoc is not even idempotent, let alone bijective.
So no, you cannot depend on this especially if you want to convert it back and forth a lot of times.
On Monday, May 3, 2021 at 3:23:12 PM UTC-7 Jeffrey Wang wrote:
I was not able to find any concrete information establishing the answer to this question. I ask this to see how much I can depend on using Pandoc for an application that would convert back and forth between two formats, one for storage/authoritative purposes and the other for rendering/display purposes. Thanks!
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