docx to pdf conversion error

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OK not sure if this is by design or a bug ;)

Relatively new to pandoc and coversion, and am coming from the Windowz 
world.

We have a variety of OSs and editors in use and want to ensure a 
commonality of  output format with standardised frontice pages etc.

Version: pandoc 2.0.1.1 Compiled with pandoc-types 1.17.2, texmath 0.10, 
skylighting 0.4.3.2

We have created our own style file for formatting in latex, and our own 
pandoc.latex to generate the coverpage etc.
We have been extending into using a yaml metadata file to include variables 
and elements (email address, mulitple authors etc) for our reports.

We have a problem with the yaml metadata file causing failures with the 
conversion from docx to pdf.
The file works correctly when used against a markdown file to produce a pdf.

Behaviour:

This fails -

>pandoc --standalone --toc --number-sections --pdf-engine=xelatex 
--template pandoc.latex test.docx metadata.yaml -o test10.pdf
couldn't parse docx file


This works without issue -
>pandoc --standalone --toc --number-sections --pdf-engine=xelatex 
--template pandoc.latex test.docx -o test10.pdf


Now either I'm doing something I'm not supposed to (and it will be very 
annoying to have to go through the intermediary step of converting to 
markdown file first then to pdf), or something is wrong with my syntax.

The same command when used for a markdown file works without issue and 
draws the variables we want from the markdown.yaml.



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