Preserve Line Breaks in Pandoc Markdown -> LaTeX Conversion

Question

I want to convert the following *.md converted into proper LaTeX *.tex.

Lorem *ipsum* something.
Does anyone know lorem by heart?

         


        

Answer 1

I figured out another way to address this problem – which is to not change the original *.mds (under version control), but to simply read them in and to have them "pandoced" when building the PDF.

Here's how:

Some markdown.md in project root:

Happy one-sentence-per-line **markdown** stuff.
And another line – makes for clear git diffs!

And some latexify.tex in project root:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\immediate\write18{pandoc markdown.md -t latex -o tmp.tex}
\input{tmp.tex}

\end{document}

Works just dandy if you have some markdown components in a latex project, e.g. github READMEs or sth.

Requires no special package, but compilation with shell-escape enabled.