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Pandoc only handles a subset of org-mode markup.

IIRC last time I tried this (long ago) there were a number of gaps in things like org-mode tables.

At the limiting case, the (common or uncommon) elisp extensions (e.g. org-babel) will likely never be processed by third-party tools.

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If you put the results of org-babel into the buffer, then pandoc handles everything OK.

The one problem I have with pandoc is that when using word export, it loses the table and figure numbers. Mind you, at least I only have to put those in outside emacs :)

> Pandoc only handles a subset of org-mode markup.

To me that's got the same drawbacks as "not standardized". If not all of the existing tools support the standard then there are several de facto standards.

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