In Org mode, Header with level > 3 are not recognized as headers

[bitspook]

Pandoc version: 2.12

Also behaves this way on https://pandoc.org/try/?text=***+Level+3%0A****+Level+4%0A%0A&from=org&to=org&standalone=0

[jgm]

I believe this is intentional.
Have you looked through https://pandoc.org/org.html?
[Edit: I don't see anything useful there, but this issue rings a bell for me. Perhaps @tarleb can comment.]

[bitspook]

Have you looked through https://pandoc.org/org.html?

I have. And yeah, nothing useful related to this there. I'll appreciate if you can give some context about why this behavior is in place; it'll also help me with some other concerns I have related to org-mode reading and writing. e.g is it reasonable to consider "write what you read" as a goal for Pandoc (e.g if I read an org-mode file, writing it back should at least be syntactically correct).

[tarleb]

See #3214, #5169, #6145. It would no doubt be good to mention this prominently in docs/org.md.

[bitspook]

Thank you for finding and linking those issues. I was somehow unable to find them during my search. I've created a PR (#7238) adding a note in the docs, please review and suggest changes.