pypandoc and restructured text

[alb]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to convert restructured text to latex with pandoc and it 
seems to me there's something not correctly working.

I have the following text:

.. figure:: picture.png
   :scale: 50 %
   :alt: map to buried treasure

   This is the caption of the figure (a simple paragraph).

   The legend consists of all elements after the caption.  In this
   case, the legend consists of this paragraph and the following
   table:

   +-----------------------+-----------------------+
   | Symbol                | Meaning               |
   +=======================+=======================+
   | .. image:: tent.png   | Campground            |
   +-----------------------+-----------------------+
   | .. image:: waves.png  | Lake                  |
   +-----------------------+-----------------------+
   | .. image:: peak.png   | Mountain              |
   +-----------------------+-----------------------+

which is essentially copied from here: 
http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#figure

But unfortunately the pypandoc silently ignores everything. The same 
happens with pandoc directly.

My installation is the following:
pandoc 1.5.1.1
python 2.6.6
debian squeeze

Any idea why? Should I upgrade somehow beyond what the debian repository 
delivers?

Al

p.s.: I understand that this is potentially not related to python and more 
related to the package, but there's a chance somebody here already had 
the same problem.

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