How to prevent image unit conversion?

[ramiromagno]

Description

Is there a simple way of preventing the '9pc' in:

https://github.com/ramiromagno/wiley-njd/blob/885a1827617952d3d01156ab68e6af8c8e118337/template.qmd#L131

getting converted to inches in latex:

\begin{figure}[t]
{\centering \includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=1.5in]{empty.pdf}}
\caption{\label{fig-fig1}This is the sample figure caption.}
\end{figure}

The motivation is getting a latex template that is identical to the journal's provided template. These small changes, although not semantically different, do make an automatic file comparison between templates a lot more difficult.

[cderv]

This is Pandoc doing the conversion

> quarto pandoc -t latex
![This is the sample figure caption.](empty){height='9pc'}
^Z
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth,height=1.5in]{empty}
\caption{This is the sample figure caption.}
\end{figure}

and I believe because pc is not a valid LaTeX unit. https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Inserting_Images#Reference_guide

[ramiromagno]

It is less common, but valid: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Lengths.

[cderv]

Learnt something thanks !

Then you should open an issue in Pandoc about this, so that this units is kept around for LaTeX outputs. https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues

[ramiromagno]

Done: jgm/pandoc#8957.

[cderv]

It seems next Pandoc will support Point and Pica as units: jgm/pandoc@ce6ef5c