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I was excited to try this today, but this is unusable. It absolutely mangles the page.

  - It duplicated the headline, one in the correct place top-center but then a 2nd copy of the headline left-aligned below that.
  - It shrunk the width of the content of the page (in fact, it seems to have completely discarded the css for the #content selector)
  - It discarded the CSS for my code blocks, so now they are unreadable.
  - My images are no longer center-aligned
  - It added CSS that was not in the original document. For some reason, it addded hyphens: auto, overflow-wrap: break-word, text-rendering: optimizeLegibility, font-kerning: normal . None of those rules existed in the original document anywhere. Now my text is breaking mid-word with hyphens inserted.
  - It pointlessly HTML-escaped some characters (like every quotation mark in every paragraph). This didn't break anything, but just... why?
Implementing the same functionality is like less than 100 lines of python, so I'm just going to go that route. I've implemented it once before, but it was for a previous company so I no longer have access to that code, but its like 1 afternoon of scripting and doesn't randomly destroy your documents. I don't know how pandoc got this so wrong.

For context: the document I am attempting to process has no javascript. It is a simple Emacs Org document (similar to markdown) rendered to HTML and then processed with pandoc. The only external content was a couple of images.

Aachen
Huh, that's a bummer! I only used it once myself to send colleagues draft versions of some markdown file that would later go on our blog, maybe it somehow helped that the source was markdown instead of html? Not sure, I'm sorry to hear of this disappointing experience :/
craftkiller OP
> maybe it somehow helped that the source was markdown instead of html?

That's probably it. Most of my issues were related to CSS, which markdown does not have[0]. The duplicated headline wasn't CSS though, that is by far the oddest issue. I'll probably file a bug report to pandoc after I replace all the text in this document with lorem ipsum (it is a document for work, so I can't share it publicly in its current form).

[0] unless you embedded your own CSS since markdown technically allows arbitrary HTML

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