Page break not suported for typst -> docx

[RayBB]

Explain the problem.

pagebreak.typ:

First Page
#pagebreak()
Second Page

Running: pandoc pagebreak.typ -f typst -t docx -s -o pagebreak.docx

The output is missing the page break:

The same issue happens when outputting to PDF.

I would expect the content after the #pagebreak() to start on a new page.

Related typst docs: https://typst.app/docs/reference/layout/pagebreak/

Pandoc version? MacOS and commit: 22ff5a8909dc8ce4f9d8a7dbdb97dcd657f9ebb0

[jgm]

The pandoc document model has no concept of page breaks.

Typst pagebreak is currently just ignored. We could have it parse as an empty Div with a pagebreak class, perhaps, or a HorizontalRule. (these would then allow you to use a filter to substitute something more appropriate for your output format.)

[RayBB]

Based on some quick searching it seems that LaTeX, PDF, DOCX, ODT, RTF, and Typst are the ones that support page breaks.

I think it would be worthwhile to support them, especially if it's not a big effort but also putting a warning if a page break is detected but won't be used would be nice. Also perhaps a note in the documentation about it.

Seems that others have tried to build something to fill the gap but it hasn't been updated in 6 years. https://github.com/pandocker/pandoc-docx-pagebreak-py