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I'm trying to use Org mode's export to markdown, and am finding some unexpected results.

For a file:

* Section

This is some test.[fn:1]
@@markdown:This should appear in markdown export.@@

* Footnotes

[fn:1] This is a footnote.

The export backend produces:

# Table of Contents

1.  [Section](#org26628a6)


<a id="org26628a6"></a>

# Section

This is some test.<sup><a id="fnr.1" class="footref" href="#fn.1">1</a></sup>


# Footnotes

<sup><a id="fn.1" href="#fnr.1">1</a></sup> This is a footnote.

Which looks very much like a mixture of markdown with html markup. Plus @@markdown: ...@@ does not seem to work.

What am I missing? Any ideas of how I could get better results?

Update: Says the Org mode manual:

The md back-end is built over HTML back-end: any construct not supported by Markdown syntax (e.g., tables) will be controlled and translated by ‘html’ back-end.

So that's probably the explanation to the result, as neither ToC nor footnotes seem to be supported by vanilla markdown.

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If you want more flexibility in your markdown export you should look at pandoc and ox-pandoc

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    Thank you. I'm aware of pandoc, but things are definitely more convenient from within Emacs. As to ox-pandoc I experimented with it, but it broke my regular LaTeX export. I'm not sure why, perhaps I'm to blame. But as I installed it from MELPA, it brought Org mode 9 with it, while I have a repo installation with Org mode 8.2.
    – gusbrs
    Jun 3, 2018 at 3:18
  • Hmm. Not sure why it would break your LaTeX export. Though pandoc/ox-pandoc uses its own template system for latex-pdf export. But in general I'd say use the newer Org if you can. You can also control pandoc directly with pandoc-mode.
    – mclear
    Jun 3, 2018 at 16:21
  • I also don't know why, but I'm sure it did. It converted #+BEGIN_LATEX to \begin{LATEX} and thus broke latex compilation. And it took me a good afternoon of debugging my setup to nail the culprit in ox-pandoc. I'll take a look at pandoc-mode though. Thanks again!
    – gusbrs
    Jun 3, 2018 at 16:40
  • I must rectify something here regarding ox-pandoc. Apparently, the syntax #+BEGIN_LATEX no longer works for recent versions of Org mode, while #+BEGIN_EXPORT latex does. So, as I used the former in my document and ox-pandoc brought a recent version of Org mode with it, I ended up with an uncompilable document.
    – gusbrs
    Jun 6, 2018 at 0:53

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