> Was there anything that you were not able to achieve with reStructuredText? I am not aware of any limitations, because you can use latex in your Pandoc template and reStructuredText is very powerful to begin with, compared to most if not all Markdown dialects for example. I think it might have been easy to continue writing reStructuredText, instead of latex.

Honestly I can't remember, it has been seven years since. I don't think I was aware that I could add LaTeX inside the reStructuredText, or maybe that wasn't a feature at that time. Or maybe the formulas were too complex to express in reSturedText (my topic was differential geometry). I think my main reason was that I did want control over the final layout and I wanted to add drawings in TikZ because that way the fonts in the image would match exactly the fonts in the text.