I use R Markdown to write some statistical analysis reports that then need to be modified in LibreOffice (or Word). I use a library (papaja) that is extremely useful but forces me to use LaTeX that Pandoc then converts to formulae. I don't want it to be converted. The only thing I want to preserve form LaTeX formatting is italic for letters. That's exactly what I get when I use rtf_document as my output format – LaTeX letters are converted to italic, numbers to regular text. Is there a way to stop Pandoc from converting LaTeX to formulae when using odt_document or word_document as output? A work-around is to use rtf_document and then convert it to .odt with LibreOffice.
Example:
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output: odt_document
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The model fits the data ($F(3, 596) = 13.19$, $p < .001$).
What I get:
What I want to get:
