LaTeX writer removes float number of meta

[Grandement]

Hi,

Seems that the LaTeX writer and maybe other writers change the float number of a meta field to an integer when it's *.0
This is bad for document versioning where 1.0 would be a valid version number and 1 would look like a typo mistake. Is there a way to change this? I read the release notes and saw that the integer representation was introduced for ipynb. #5398

I do not really understand why this should be changed for writers like LaTeX. When I remember correctly the float number worked in the past.

[mb21]

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[Grandement]

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minimal testcase:
markdown file with yaml meta only (content.md) :

---
VERSION1: 1.0
VERSION2: 1.1
---

latex template file (template.tex) :

$VERSION1$

$VERSION2$

pandoc call:
pandoc --template=template.tex -t latex -o output.tex content.md

Output result (output.tex) :

1

1.1

expected instead:

1.0

1.1

[jgm]

This seems to be fixed already in the dev version!

 % pandoc --template my.templ -t latex -s
---
VERSION1: 1.0
VERSION2: 1.1
---
1.0

1.1