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@@ -37,14 +37,14 @@ Out of scope?
A less than perfect conversion does not necessarily mean there's
a bug in pandoc. Quoting from the MANUAL:
> Because Pandoc's intermediate representation of a document is less
> 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
> 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.
For example, both docx and odt can represent margin size, but because