When using pandoc to convert *.tex to .*docx, my \chapter{} are vanishing

[dbourrion]

I'm using pandoc to convertsome very simple *.tex files to *.docx It works very well except one thing : my \chapter{} ligne doesn't appears in the resulting .*docx

To be precise : if I compile my *.tex to .*pdf, I have a nice

Chapitre 1

This is the first line of an incredible novel

but the export with pandoc of my *.tex give me in the resulting *.docx :

(nothing)

This is the first line of an incredible novel

Any idea to help me ?

Best regards.

[jgm]

I tried

 % pandoc -o my.docx -f latex
\documentclass{book}
\begin{document}
\chapter{My chapter}
hello
\end{document}
^D

and I got:

[dbourrion]

Hi there.
In fact, I never put something in \chapter{} because i'm using in general the *.pdf export, where the "automatic" "Chapter 1" appears even with just \chapter{}

But that's not working "out of the box" with an docx export.

This said, somebody has give me the answer : one must use pandoc --reference-doc

You can find the answer there.