Might be worth trying what happens if you return pandoc.Softbreak() instead 
of pandoc.Space() https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html#pandoc.softbreak

On Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 9:59:58 PM UTC JDTS wrote:

> Update: I find that any number of \n's is swallowed, but \r is converted 
> to \n on org output.  
>
> On Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 4:24:06 PM UTC-5 JDTS wrote:
>
>> Thanks again, something like this should work. I'd prefer to turn it into 
>> a regular newline, but haven't figure out how to do that.  pandoc.str('\n') 
>> doesn't seem to result in any output.  
>> On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 9:13:14 AM UTC-5 Julien Dutant wrote:
>>
>>> Pandoc -f html -t native shows that <br> is turned into a Linebreak 
>>> element:
>>>
>>> pandoc -f html -t native
>>> test <br/>
>>> [ Plain [ Str "test" , LineBreak ] ]
>>>
>>> So I'd use a filter that converts Linebreaks to Space. Save as 
>>> removeLinebreak.lua:
>>>
>>> function Linebreak (elem)
>>>   return pandoc.Space()
>>> end
>>>
>>> Could be added to the previous one with
>>>
>>> return {{ 
>>> OrderedList = fixList, 
>>> BulletList = fixList,
>>> Linebreak = replaceBySpace
>>> }}
>>>
>>> I think replacing it with a space is the safest. To remove it entirely, 
>>> you couldn't return nil as Pandoc treats this as "leave unmodified". You'd 
>>> have to return an empty list instead, I think:
>>>
>>> function Linebreak (elem)
>>>   return pandoc.List:new()
>>> end
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> J
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 12:28:55 AM UTC JDTS wrote:
>>>
>>> One other quick question: pandoc parses <br> as linebreak, and 
>>> translates that into org as double-backslash \\.  Any way to disable this?  
>>>
>>>
>>>

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