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@@ -40,6 +40,16 @@ representation of the document, and a set of writers, which convert this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding an input or output format requires only adding a reader or writer. +Because Pandoc's intermediate representation of a document is less +expressive than many of the formats it converts between, one should +not expect perfect conversions between every format and every other. +Pandoc attempts to preserve the structural elements of a document, but +not formatting details such as margin size. And some document elements, +such as complex tables, may not fit into Pandoc's simple document +model. While conversions from Pandoc's Markdown to all formats aspire +to be perfect, conversions from formats more expressive than Pandoc's +Markdown can be expected to be lossy. + Using `pandoc` -------------- |