PanDoc - Force converting into markdown to use # and ## for H1 and H2 respectively

Question

I prefer the # and ## for Headers 1 and 2 respectively. I'd like to make my instance of PanDoc respect that when it is converting from say html into .md

Right now it converts H1s in the older style

Header 1
========

Is there a way to change this behavior.

I use PanDoc via Atom primarily. Not sure if this will have an effect. In researching I have concluded that the Atom functionality is flowing from my macOS systems PanDoc installation. So modifying the behavior there ought to flow through. If not, I'd be willing to change my behavior and use pandoc from the terminal if need be.

Thanks.

Thanks to the responder with the answer (atx-style-headers) achieved via command line using:

--atx-headers flag

Further explanation is available here at Pandocs documentation

Answer 1

Try:

pandoc --atx-headers -o try.md try.html

The output file try.md should have only ATX-style headers.