Pandoc not maintaining newlines from .txt file to Word file

[Serena De Stefani <serenadestefani-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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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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