Hallucinated paragraph breaks

[UnixRonin]

I just, for the first time, used pandoc as part of the production workflow for my just-completed latest book.

First, as long as I went through the intermediate step of saving my .ODT manuscript as .DOCX and then generating .EPUB from that .DOCX, it did a magnificent job of preserving the essentials of all of my text formatting, leaving me (mostly) only to write new CSS and hand-tune a few things. (I was not able to figure out how to make it use a pre-supplied reference stylesheet, but that's no biggie.)

I did run into one problem, though. When a paragraph in my manuscript spanned a page boundary, pandoc "hallucinates" a paragraph break at the page boundary.

Is this a known/intended behavior? Is there a way to tell pandoc not to do it?

[rnwst]

Can you please include a dummy manuscript and the exact command you ran so we can try to debug this?

[UnixRonin]

Let me see if I can reproduce it in a small sample.

[UnixRonin]

I take it back; it appears I misunderstood the problem. I foolishly ASSUMED that it was pandoc that was introducing the hallucinated paragraph breaks. But upon further testing, it is not; it is the export-to-.DOCX step from LibreOffice that is doing it. Pandoc is faithfully rendering what LibreOffice exports as DOCX. It's LibreOffice that is screwing the pooch.

[rnwst]

Glad to hear you managed to find the cause of the issue! If no pandoc related query remains, could you please close this discussion? Thanks!

[UnixRonin]

Will do.