vadjust pre does not get parsed by LaTeX reader

[luerhard]

Explain the problem.
I am running a pipeline to produce documents with pandoc as:

1. convert markdown to tex with pandoc
2. convert tex to docx with pandoc (and tex to pdf with pdflatex)

I use citeproc and link-citations: true.

When i create the pdf with pdflatex, everything looks fine, but in \vadjust pre in the link citations do not seem to work with the docx writer.

from this base latex:

\hypertarget{refs}{}
\begin{CSLReferences}{1}{0}
\leavevmode\vadjust pre{\hypertarget{ref-baayen2008}{}}%
Baayen, R. H. (2008). \emph{Analyzing linguistic data. {A} practical
introduction to statistics using {R}} (1. publ.). {Cambridge University
Press}.

\leavevmode\vadjust pre{\hypertarget{ref-jones2016}{}}%
Jones, S. E. (2016). \emph{Roberto {Busa}, {S}. {J}., And the
{Emergence} of {Humanities Computing}. {The Priest} and the {Punched
Cards}}. {Routledge}.

\end{CSLReferences}

the resulting references in docx are:

This behavior is the same with the odt writer.

Pandoc version?
I am using pandoc 2.14.2 on Ubuntu.

[jgm]

• We need to teach the LaTeX reader about the CSLReferences environment (which should gobble the two parameters)
• and about the \vadjust command -- basically we just need to gobble a pre after it if there is one.

[jgm]

@luerhard why are you doing this way? You could just go directly from markdown to docx using pandoc.
This would be more reliable.

[luerhard]

Mainly because i want to be able to write latex commands in my markdown document. Also, that way I only have one pipeline to worry about and can manually adjust the latex file if necessary.

I have to convert to latex before pdf anyway to get stuff like the letter-numbered appendices, so I figured it is easier and better to maintain one single intermediary file with two outputs instead of two completely separate conversions.