When I do this, I get a docx where my markdown blockquotes (>) have not been properly converted, but with citation conversion working:
pandoc --filter pandoc-citeproc --bibliography ref/my-refs.bib in.md -o out.docx -f markdown
When I do this, the blockquotes work, but citations are not converted:
pandoc --filter pandoc-citeproc --bibliography ref/my-refs.bib in.md -o out.docx -f markdown_strict
The only difference between the two is markdown vs markdown_strict
How can I get blockquotes + citations to work?
This is caused by the blank_before_blockquote extension:
Extension:blank_before_blockquoteStandard Markdown syntax does not require a blank line before a block quote. Pandoc does require this (except, of course, at the beginning of the document). The reason for the requirement is that it is all too easy for a
>to end up at the beginning of a line by accident (perhaps through line wrapping). So, unless themarkdown_strictformat is used, the following does not produce a nested block quote in pandoc:> This is a block quote. >> Nested.
You can selectively disable this extension by using -f markdown-blank_before_blockquote.