Pandoc improperly converts HTML formulae to .docx

[Cassandra Lyderitz <cassandra.lyderitz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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I am wondering how to properly convert HTML display format formulae into MS 
Word format with pandoc so that the formulae Unicode markup would be 
interpeted.  
The minimal HTML file I am trying to convert and the output I get, as well 
as the output I would expect (which is actually, the output of the direct 
.md to .docx conversion ), are attached to the post. 

 The command I run is 
`$ pandoc  --to docx -o repro_html_to_word.docx repro_html_to_word.html`

The issue occurs both if the formulae are in inline format (then they are 
embedded into \(...\) in .docx) and the display format (they get embedded 
into \[...\], respectively) 
If I convert reversely the .docx document with formulae into .html, the 
formulae are rendered properly. 

Any help would be very much appreciated. 
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Background: I am asking this because such conversion could finish my 
pipeline to output R Markdown documents with stargazer package regression 
results tables into MS Word. 
AFAIK currently stargazer supports output to TeX and HTML, but not to Word: 
although MS Word can render standalone HTML files (e. g. it can output the 
HTML table output), the HTML markup that gets pasted into the Markdown file 
are rendered improperly and the table is not constructed.  

I am cognizant of some other R packages that target MS Word specifically , 
notably `flextable`, `gtsummary`, `huxtable`. They however lack the 
configuration necessary for me and/or require a lot of configuration, and 
while I am exploring all available options, I would like to wonder whether 
I could find a walkaround for this obstacle.  

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