Thanks --- the div trick works fine as a workaround; I hadn't thought of
that. Odd that the style is retained for a div and not for a paragraph,
though. I wonder if there's a layer translating via something semantically
equivalent to markdown.

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 18:11, John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org> wrote:

>
> Pandoc conversions can, in general, lose information.
> See the beginning of the manual.
>
> If you have a class on a div rather than a p, it should
> carry through.  So if you can modify the source document
> accordingly, it may work.
>
> David Given <david.given-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
> > I have a document in HTML which I'm trying to convert to EPUB, using a
> > command line like this:
> >
> > pandoc -f html -t epub2 --metadata-file=meta.yaml input.html
> > --self-contained -o output.epub --toc
> >
> > If my input file contains a paragraph with a CSS class like this:
> >
> > <p class="something">text</p>
> >
> > ...then the class is stripped off in the output EPUB:
> >
> > <p>text</p>
> >
> > This is problematic as I need the class in order to format my text
> > properly. Does anyone know why this happens and if there's any way to
> stop
> > it?
> >
> > (Additional context: I need the class because bare <br/> elements get
> > transformed into <p><br/></p> paragraphs, which my CSS can't detect, so
> if
> > anyone can stop *that* conversion instead it'd work just as well.)
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