Pandoc markdown: Omit text in PDF version but include in HTML version

Question

I'm trying to maintain two versions of my CV, one with lots of gloss and one that's more conventional. The glossy version will be HTML. I have it working with images (e.g. when I include an image using straight-up HTML code, Pandoc non-strict ignores the image and alt text in the PDF version but includes it in the HTML version.

However, for straight-up text, it's not working. I've tried wrapping it in <p>text</p> or <div>text</div>, but the PDF version seems to be ignoring the code while leaving the text content intact.

Reproducible example:

**My CV**

Content to appear in both

<img src='https://www.google.com/images/srpr/logo4w.png' alt='image to only appear in HTML'>

<p>Text to only appear in HTML</p>

How do I flag text content so that it only appears in the HTML version?

Answer 1

With recent versions of pandoc, you can disable the extension markdown_in_html_blocks:

pandoc -f markdown-markdown_in_html_blocks

Then the contents of <div>...</div> tags will be ignored in LaTeX/PDF output, but will still appear in HTML.