Thank you for your response, John.&nbsp;<div><br></div><div>Upon closer inspection, I think my initial assumptions were incorrect. I thought pandoc had found a command/environment that it didn't understand, but now it seems more obscure.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>I ran pandoc &nbsp;with this command: "pandoc File.tex -t json --verbose" and got the following output</div><div><br></div><div>```</div><div>(lots of messages about Skipped and Parsing unescaped '&amp;')</div><div><div>[INFO] Skipped '\bottomrule' at line 1849 column 16</div><div>[INFO] Skipped '\begin{tabular}' at line 1823 column 18</div><div>[INFO] Skipped '\end{tabular}' at line 1850 column 16</div><div>[INFO] Skipped '\subexperiment{SAP}' at line 1854 column 20</div><div><br></div><div>Error at "source" (line 1855, column 12):</div><div>unexpected [</div><div>Additional details are found in the following paragraphs.</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;^</div></div><div>```</div><div>The carrot should point to the d in details.</div><div><br></div><div>So I'm not sure why pandoc found what it thought was an "unexpected [". I couldn't find a bracket in the preceding few dozen lines, but I did find one in the few lines afterwards. Does the message mean something obscure?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your help.</div><div>Jeremy</div><div><br></div><div>$ pandoc --version</div><div><div>pandoc 2.10</div><div>Compiled with pandoc-types 1.21, texmath 0.12.0.2, skylighting 0.8.5</div><div>Default user data directory: /Users/jlconlin/.local/share/pandoc or /Users/jlconlin/.pandoc</div><div>Copyright (C) 2006-2020 John MacFarlane</div><div>Web: &nbsp;https://pandoc.org</div><div>This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.</div><div>There is no warranty, not even for merchantability or fitness</div><div>for a particular purpose.</div><div><br></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto" class="gmail_attr">On Thursday, September 10, 2020 at 6:50:28 PM UTC-6 John MacFarlane wrote:<br/></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>It really depends on the details of the document, but if
<br>pandoc is struggling with certain commands and environments,
<br>one approach is to define custom macros for those, which
<br>convert them into something pandoc can handle.
<br>
<br>(In a few cases you might get away with just putting the .sty
<br>file in the working directory, so pandoc tries to parse it,
<br>but pandoc usually can&#39;t handle the lower-level tex definitions
<br>style files have, so this usually doesn&#39;t work.)
<br>
<br>For example, if you have a foobar command, just
<br>add this to your document
<br>
<br>\renewcommand{foobar}[2]{limit yourself
<br>here to stuff pandoc can handle}
<br>
<br>You can often get pretty far with this method.
<br>
<br>Jeremy Conlin &lt;<a href data-email-masked rel="nofollow">jlco...@gmail.com</a>&gt; writes:
<br>
<br>&gt; I have a large (900 page) LaTeX document (broken up into several LaTeX 
<br>&gt; files) that I want to convert into restructured text. I&#39;ve already tried to 
<br>&gt; use pandoc to convert some of the files and it has failed for a few 
<br>&gt; reasons. 
<br>&gt;
<br>&gt; I&#39;m a new pandoc user, but I figure I&#39;m going to have to write my own 
<br>&gt; converter. Before I do, I wanted to ask this forum what the right way to 
<br>&gt; approach the conversion. I was planning on reading  everything into Python, 
<br>&gt; do my own search/replace and then pass the result on to pandoc. I would 
<br>&gt; then rinse/repeat until I have everything the way I want it. 
<br>&gt;
<br>&gt; I know there are filters and such that I can write to customize things, but 
<br>&gt; (as a beginner) I&#39;m not sure if it would be easier to learn pandoc syntax 
<br>&gt; and write my own filter, or just go at it in Python as I described above.
<br>&gt;
<br>&gt; I don&#39;t mind doing it either way; I think it might be a fun side project to 
<br>&gt; do when I&#39;m procrastinating doing what I really should be doing. 
<br>&gt;
<br>&gt; Please advise on what is the right approach. I&#39;m sure there are other 
<br>&gt; approaches too that I&#39;m not aware of. I&#39;m open for suggestions.
<br>&gt;
<br>&gt; Thanks,
<br>&gt; Jeremy
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