Pandoc filter which converts LaTeX \newpage commands into appropriate pagebreak markup for other formats.

pandoc-newpage.pl

#!/usr/bin/env perl

# Pandoc filter which converts paragraps containing only the LaTeX
# `\newpage` or `\pagebreak` command into appropriate pagebreak markup
# for other formats.
#
# You will need perl version 5.10.1 or higher <https://www.perl.org/get.html>
# (Strawberry Perl recommended on Windows!)
# and a module installer <http://www.cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html>
# and the Pandoc::Elements module version 0.33 or higher
# <https://metacpan.org/pod/Pandoc::Elements>
#
# Run with the `-F` option:
#
#       $ pandoc -F pandoc-newpage.pl ...
#
# USAGE WITH HTML
# ---------------
#
# If you want to use an HTML class rather than an inline style
# set the value of the metadata key `newpage_html_class`
# or the environment variable `PANDOC_NEWPAGE_HTML_CLASS`
# (the metadata 'wins' if both are defined)
# to the name of the class and use CSS like this:
#
#       @media all {
#           .page-break	{ display: none; }
#       }
#       @media print {
#           .page-break	{ display: block; page-break-after: always; }
#       }
#
#
# USAGE WITH ODT
# --------------
#
# To use with ODT you must create a reference ODT with a named
# paragraph style called `Pagebreak` (or whatever you set the
# metadata field `newpage_odt_style` or the environment variable
# `PANDOC_NEWPAGE_ODT_STYLE` to) and define it as having no extra
# space before or after but set it to have a pagebreak after it
# <https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Text_Flow>.
# (There will be an empty dummy paragraph, which means some extra
# vertical space, and you probably want that space to go at the
# bottom of the page before the break rather than at the top of
# the page after the break!)
#
# CHANGES
# -------
#
# 2017-02-24:
#
# : Support `\pagebreak`.
# : Support ODT.
# : Add URL for DOCX syntax.
#
# Copyright 2017 Benct Philip Jonsson
#
# This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
# the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
# See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/>.

use utf8;
use autodie 2.29;
use 5.010001;
use strict;
use warnings;
use warnings  qw(FATAL utf8);

use Carp qw[ carp croak ];

use Pandoc::Elements 0.33;
use Pandoc::Walker 0.27 qw[ action transform ];

my $out_format = shift @ARGV;
my $json = <>;
my $doc = pandoc_json($json);

my $html_break = $doc->meta->value('newpage_html_class') // $ENV{PANDOC_NEWPAGE_HTML_CLASS};
if ( ref $html_break ) {
    croak "Metadata>newpage_html_class must be string";
}

my $odt_break = $doc->meta->value('newpage_odt_style') // $ENV{PANDOC_NEWPAGE_ODT_STYLE} // 'Pagebreak';
if ( ref $odt_break ) {
    croak "Metadata-->newpage_odt_style must be string";
}

$html_break &&= qq[<div class="$html_break"></div>];
$html_break ||= qq[<div style="page-break-after: always;"></div>];

$odt_break &&= qq[<text:p text:style-name="$odt_break"/>];
$odt_break ||= qq[<text:p text:style-name="Pagebreak"/>];

my %break_for = (
    html  => RawBlock( html    => $html_break ),
    html5 => RawBlock( html    => $html_break ),
    ## epub doesn't work, or only broken Linux readers?
    epub  => RawBlock( html    => $html_break ),
    ## http://stackoverflow.com/a/2822543/1640286
    docx  => RawBlock( openxml => '<w:p><w:r><w:br w:type="page" /></w:r></w:p>' ),
    odt   => RawBlock( odt     => $odt_break ),
);

my $break = $break_for{ $out_format };

# If we don't want to do anything with this doc '
unless ( defined $break ) {
    print $json;
    exit 0;
}

my %actions = (
    'RawBlock' => sub {
        my($elem) = @_;
        $elem->format =~ /^(?:la)?tex$/ or return;
        $elem->content =~ /^\\newpage$|^\\pagebreak$/ or return;
        return $break;
    },
);

my $action = action \%actions;

# Allow applying the action recursively
$doc->transform($action, $action);

print $doc->to_json;

__END__

Note: \pagebreak should also work probably.

And now it does