pandoc: converting between .tex and .rst

Question

I'm using pandoc to convert from .tex to .rst.

If I start with the following .tex file, mwe.tex

mwe.tex

section{Introduction}
Here is some text.

Here is some more text.

begin{minipage}{.4textwidth}
    mycommand{first argument}{second argument}{3rd argument}
end{minipage}%
hfill
begin{minipage}{.4textwidth}
    This type of listing is a texttt{.tex} file.
end{minipage}%

and run the following command

pandoc mwe.tex -o mwe.rst

then I receive the output

mwe.rst

Introduction
============

Here is some text.

Here is some more text.

.4

.4 This type of listing is a ``.tex`` file.

I'd like to customize the conversion of the minipage environment and mycommand command. How can this be done?

DG' · Accepted Answer

Pandoc can parse latex macro definitions. This means, that you can add dummy newcommand statements to tweak what will end up in the output:

input file 1: dummy.tex

newcommand{mycommand}[3]{(#1) and (#2) and (#3)}

input file 2: mwe.tex

section{Introduction}
Here is some text.

Here is some more text.

begin{minipage}{.4textwidth}
    mycommand{first argument}{second argument}{3rd argument}
end{minipage}%
hfill
begin{minipage}{.4textwidth}
    This type of listing is a texttt{.tex} file.
end{minipage}%

run:

pandoc dummy.tex mwe.tex -o mwe.rst

output file mwe.rst:

Introduction
============

Here is some text.

Here is some more text.

(first argument) and (second argument) and (3rd argument)

.. raw:: latex

hfill

This type of listing is a ``.tex`` file.

And, as you can see, more recent versions of pandoc (in this case 2.1.1) handle minipages much better.

You might need to write a filter for more complicated issues.

pandoc: converting between .tex and .rst

`mwe.tex`

`mwe.rst`

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