\newpage command inside LaTeX table throws pandoc off

[sixtyfive]

When there' s a \newpage command inside of a LaTeX table, pandoc stops interpreting it as a table. The expected behaviour, from my viewpoint as an unsuspecting user who didn't think of pandoc back when I wrote a LaTeX table that was only supposed to be interpreted by LaTeX at that time, would be for pandoc to simply discard the \newpage command and keep going, already having figured out it's dealing with a table because of the initial \begin{tabular} command. I.e. the only thing that should stop pandoc from considering a LaTeX table a table should be an \end{tabular} command.

[jgm]

It would be helpful if you could give us a small test case.

[sixtyfive]

This is the one that I'm working on atm (pandoc 1.17.2 from Debian Stretch):

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[h!]
\begin{tabular}{r|l|l}

  {\large \textbf{ﺍ}} && \\
  \textbf{ﺄﺤﺴﻨﺘـ(ﻭﺍ) IV} & \em{ʾaḥsant(ū)} & thank you \\
  \newpage
  \emph{blah} & \emph{blah} & \emph{blah} \\
  blah & blah & blah \\

\end{tabular}
\end{table}

\end{document}

[sixtyfive]

o_O

thank you! 😄