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Extracting Horizontal rules from Word Documents #6285

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@davidmerfield

Pandoc version 2.9.2.1 Compiled with pandoc-types 1.20, texmath 0.12.0.1, skylighting 0.8.3.2 on macOS Sierra 10.12.6

Hello! Thank you for a wonderful tool.

I've run into an issue converting Word Documents (.docx) into Markdown.

I would love to be able to convert horizontal rules in Word Documents. Pandoc is able to generate word documents with horizontal rules from Markdown but not vice versa.

Here's a short command to demonstrate the problem:

echo '---' | pandoc --from=markdown --to=docx | pandoc --from=docx --to=markdown

Output:


Desired output:

---

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