Pandoc: does not include input files

Pandoc does include input files

If you have a structure like this

.
├── main.tex
└── somefolder
    └── somefile.tex

with the following two files

1: main.tex

% !TeX program = XeLaTeX

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}

\section*{Test}

    Input somefolder/somefile.tex:
    \input{somefolder/somefile}

\end{document}

and

2: somefile.tex

This is somefile

then

pandoc main.tex -t docx -o main.docx

will give you a word document, which contains the contents of somefolder/somefile.tex

3: main.docx

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Bottom line: It works. If the structure of your project and/or code is more complicated then you should do some preprocessing first.

Update: Your MWE produces a docx file

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As you can see, it contains the content from the included files. The trouble is that pandoc can't parse the elaborate macros (\newcommand) you are using, so there is a lot of noise and not a lot of signal.


I answered this question before here:

I know that this is an old question, but I have not seen any answers to this effect: Essentially, if you are using markdown and pandoc to convert your file to pdf, in your yaml data at the top of the page, you can include something like this:

---
header-includes:
- \usepackage{pdfpages}
output: pdf_document
---

\includepdf{/path/to/pdf/document.pdf}

# Section

Blah blah

## Section 

Blah blah

Since pandoc using latex to convert all of your documents, the header-includes section calls the pdfpages package. Then when you include \includepdf{/path/to/pdf/document.pdf} it will insert whatever is include in that document. Furthermore, you can include multiple pdf files this way.

As a fun bonus, and this is only because I often use markdown, if you would like to include files other than markdown, for instance latex files. I have modified this answer somewhat. Say that you have a markdown file markdown1.md:

---
title: Something meaning full
author: Talking head
---

And two addtional latex file document1, that looks like this:

\section{Section}

Profundity.

\subsection{Section}

Razor's edge.

And another, document2.tex, that looks like this:

\section{Section

Glah

\subsection{Section}

Balh Balh

Assuming that you want to include document1.tex and document2.tex into markdown1.md, you would just do this to markdown1.md

title: Something meaning full
author: Talking head
---

\input{/path/to/document1}
\input{/path/to/document2}

Run pandoc over it, e.g.

in terminal pandoc markdown1.md -o markdown1.pdf

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