Preserve Line Breaks in Pandoc Markdown -> LaTeX Conversion
I want to convert the following *.md converted into proper LaTeX *.tex.
Lorem *ipsum* something.
Does anyone know lorem by heart?
That would *sad* because there's always Google.
Expected Behavior / Resulting LaTeX from Pandoc
Lorem \emph{ipsum} something.
Does anyone know lorem by heart?
That would \emph{sad} because there's always Google.
Observed Behavior / Resulting LaTeX from Pandoc
Lorem \emph{ipsum} something. Does anyone know lorem by heart?
That would \emph{sad} because there's always Google.
Why do I care? 1. I'm transitioning a bigger git repo from markdown to LaTeX, and I want a clean diff and history. 2. I actually like my LaTeX with one sentence-per-line even though it does not matter for the typesetting.
How can I get Pandoc to do this?
Ps.: I am aware of the option hard_line_breaks, but that only adds \\ between the two first lines, and does not actually preserve my line breaks.
Answer
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.