How to convert LaTeX to Quarto via pandoc

[erikerhardt]

Description

Is there a pandoc style that will correctly convert a LaTeX book to quarto, and not just generic markdown? Is it related to the pandoc templates https://quarto.org/docs/journals/templates.html, and if so, how are they used?

I'm converting a LaTeX book to quarto, and I'm hoping to leverage some tools to do much of the conversion for me.

While the pandoc command below gets me pretty close, the markdown style is not the same as rmarkdown or quarto. For example, Headings 1 (Chapter) and 2 (Section) use underlines.
pandoc -f latex -t latex.tex -o markdown.md
https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html

Example input:

\chapter{Chapter}
\section{Section}
\subsection{Subsection}
\subsubsection{Subsubsection}

Example output:

Chapter
=======

Section
--------------

### Subsection
#### Subsubsection

[mcanouil]

Note that this question is a Pandoc question not really Quarto.

This being said, there are changes of syntaxes as you implied.
The output syntax you show is valid default markdown syntax.
Over the years, in rmarkdown, users started to only use # (myself included).
What you can try is look for variants of markdown, see https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#markdown-variants.

Note that, you can run the bundle version of Pandoc used in Quarto quarto pandoc ...

[erikerhardt]

Thank you, Mickaël. Your recommended "quarto pandoc ..." command gets me much closer!