If it is a one-time conversion, it might be worthwhile just replacing the
index terms with something temporary, getting to the org-file, and then
putting them back in the right way. For example, you could replace each
term with a uuid, and keep a list that maps the uuid to the term. Then the
uuid would pass through the pandoc untouched, and afterwards, go back
through and replace the uuid with the #+INDEX entries.

I don't know if that is worth the effort, but it might get you a faster
org-doc than bug reporting :)

John

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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a large document (a book) written in AsciiDoc, and I’ve been
> thinking of converting it to org-mode, which I find eminently more
> readable. The method I’ve come up with is:
>
> 1. AsciiDoc -> Docbook using asciidoc or asciidoctor
> 2. Docbook -> org using pandoc
>
> The conversion seems to work well, except for one thing: I have index
> terms in my AsciiDoc files using the ‘((( … )))’ syntax (
> http://asciidoctor.org/docs/user-manual/#index-terms). Step 1 converts
> them correctly into <indexterm> tags, but pandoc inserts them as part of
> the main text instead of producing‘#+INDEX entries.
>
> Before I go report the bug to Pandoc, I was wondering if anyone has tried
> this and maybe come up with some other way of doing the conversion.
>
> Thanks!
>
> —Diego
>
>