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

Update

Since pandoc 1.16, this is possible:

pandoc --wrap=preserve

Old answer

Since Pandoc converts the Markdown to an AST-like internal representation, your non-semantic linebreaks are lost. So what you're looking for is not possible without some custom scripting (like using --no-wrap and then processing the output by inserting a line-break wherever there is a dot followed by a space).

However, you can use the --columns NUMBER options to specify the number of characters on each line. So you won't have a sentence per line, but NUMBER of characters per line.