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I was trying the filter and didn't work using commonmark_x, until I use -f markdown.
I did use input.md from test samples:

$ pandoc --lua-filter pagebreak.lua input.md -f markdown -t ms > expected.ms
$ pandoc --lua-filter pagebreak.lua input.md -f commonmark_x -t ms > not_expected.ms
$ diff --unified --suppress-common-lines expected.ms not_expected.ms
--- expected.ms 2024-02-21 00:05:06.881878556 -0300
+++ not_expected.ms     2024-02-20 23:40:30.712961487 -0300
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
 Donec hendrerit tempor tellus.
 Donec pretium posuere tellus.
-.bp
+.PP
+\[rs]newpage
 .PP
 Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur
 ridiculus mus.

As you can see they're not the same, for -t ms pagebreak should be in both cases .bp.
Same mismatch happens using:

• gfm
• commonmark
• markdown_strict
• ...

And not just -t ms output, also:

• context
• asciidoc
• html
• ...

I din't use "expected" files to compare, because clearly they have errors and need to upload again, problems like:

input.md > 1 page break (corrupted maybe?)
expected.adoc > 0 page break
expected.html > 2 page break
expected.context > no exist to compare

$ pacman -Qs pandoc | head -1
local/pandoc-bin 3.1.11-1
$ neofetch --off distro kernel
distro: Arch Linux x86_64
kernel: 6.1.52-1-lts

Can this filter be extended so it can include pagebreaks when converting from supported output formats to Markdown?

I work on a project where I prefer to work in plain text, but others use MS Word for most of their work. We really need as much of the formating to be intact when converting, and especially pagebreaks would be helpful to keep when I convert between the different formats.

I think it would be reasonable to have an option that allows a paragraph consisting only of \newpage. This wouldn't depend on supporting the raw_tex extension, and is actually a variant of the pagebreak.break-on.form-feed option.