Might it be simpler to leave the citekeys unprocessed during the initial
conversion to Word?

I think the citekyes format is simple enough to be self explanatory, and
the markup is no more disruptive to reading then a standard author date
citation style. You can tell your collaborators that these will be replaced
by appropriately formatted citations at the final edit stage.

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 10:18 AM Alex <ac.ringeri-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hello! I am investigating using pandoc for my academic writing. I intend
> to do the majority of the writing in markdown but will have others
> reviewing and giving feedback through word (docx), and would like a way to
> re-integrate the edits back to markdown while keeping the text as close as
> possible. (md -> docx -> md)
>
> In my markdown I have citations using the [@citekey] format:
>
> Here is a reference to one of the entries in my bibliography
> [@Aigrain2021].
>
> I would like a way to preserve citations when converting between docx and
> md.
> I've tried the following approach but just get plain text (in the
> markdown) where the citation was.
>
> Here is a reference to one of the entries in my bibliography (Aigrain
> 2021).
>
> I am not sure whether the citations are being lost in the md to docx step
> or the docx to md step. (I am not familiar with the how word even stores
> citations)
>
> Is what I want to do supported?
> I have the files:
> main.md
> main.bib
> nature-conservation.csl
>
> The command I'm using to convert to docx (md -> docx):
> pandoc --citeproc \
> --bibliography main.bib \
> --csl nature-conservation.csl \
> -t docx+citations -o main.docx \
> -f markdown+citations main.md
>
> The command I'm using to convert back to markdown:
> pandoc -s --citeproc \
> --bibliography main.bib \
> --csl nature-conservation.csl \
> -t markdown+citations -o main.md \
> -f docx+citations main.docx
>
> Any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks!
>
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