If Pandoc doesn't natively support this scenario, you might consider 
writing a filter to extract and remove the sidenotes into a separate 
file/location and write an additional program manipulating the docx Open 
XML or the Word application object model to merge the sidenotes back in.

On Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 11:41:58 PM UTC+3 Denis Maier wrote:

> Am 13.09.2020 um 21:44 schrieb Leonard Rosenthol:
> > Looks like you can - 
> > https://wordribbon.tips.net/T010668_Adding_Sidebars.html
> >
> > You can also do text boxes, pull quotes, etc.   However, I didn't dig 
> > into which coudl be done with custom styles and which would require a 
> > (Lua) filter.  But the features are there in DocX if we figure out the 
> > best way to expose them...
>
> Well, maybe... but, the link above is about Sidebars, which I understand 
> as adding arbitray content in the margins. That's not the same thing as 
> sidenotes, maybe a visual approximation, but I think there won't be any 
> link between those boxes and the text. There even won't be a note number 
> in the text unless we add one. And the worst part might be placing those 
> boxes in the margins. There are some LaTeX packages that go at great 
> lengths to keep the sidenotes close to the calling location, but also 
> move them around if need arise, e.g. when the note is called near the 
> end of a page, or if there are to many notes. (Does pandoc even have 
> access to these details?)
>
> Anyway, all that doesn't fundamentally speak against implementing this.
>
> Just one remark regarding this particular case: The OP wrote he is going 
> to send his manuscript to his publisher. So I guess the publisher will 
> do the layout anyway, and I doubt that the typesetter will appreciate a 
> docx with notes in the margins. (At least I wouldn't.)
>
> Best,
> Denis
>

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