Re: Pandoc not maintaining newlines from .txt file to Word file

[James AUSTIN <james.londonsw15-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Hi Serena

I think you want \n (backslash n) rather than <br>

Take care
James 

> On 18 Jan 2018, at 20:08, Serena De Stefani <serenadestefani-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> I am using Pandoc to integrate Scrivener with Zotero. I write in Scrivener adding the Zotero citation keys, compile a .txt file, then use Pandoc to convert the .txt file into a Word file in which the citation keys are effectively translated in my preferred citation style (APA in this case). Following the instructions on this <https://davepwsmith.github.io/academic-scrivener-howto/> webpage, I also set up "Marked 2" to show the output of what I was writing in Scrivener using markdown.
> 
> Here comes the problem: newlines.
> If I write in Scrivener:
> 
>     I want a newline after this.
>     This should be a newline.
> 
> then Marked 2 is showing:
> 
>     I want a newline after this. This should be a newline.
> 
> So then I wrote in Scrivener:
> 
>     I want a newline after this.<br>
>     This should be a newline.
> 
> Marked 2:
> 
>     I want a newline after this.
>     This should be a newline.
> 
> Great! Now I compile into a .txt file and I get:
> 
>     I want a newline after this.<br>
>     This should be a newline.
> 
> OK, now it is time to use Pandoc.
> 
> I type the following command into the terminal:
> 
>     pandoc -s -S --normalize --bibliography  
>     ~/Dropbox/_Research/Master_Thesis/Master.bib --csl 
>     ~/Dropbox/_Research/apa.csl 
>     -f markdown -t docx -o trial.docx /Users/S/Desktop/test_st.txt
> 
> I get my .docx file (and when I do this with a full document, all my citations are there, so that works!), but then I read:
> 
>     I want a newline after this. This should be a newline.
> 
> Note that the <br> that was present in the .txt file is gone, but still I did not get a newline.
> 
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