Treat an image alone in its paragraph (but not a figure) as an independent image: ``` % pandoc -f native -t rst [Para [Image ("",["align-center"],[]) [Str "https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg"] ("https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg","")]] ^D |https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg| .. |https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg| image:: https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg ``` Here we just omit the center attribute as it's not valid: ``` % pandoc -f native -t rst [Para [Str "hi",Space,Image ("",["align-center"],[]) [Str "https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg"] ("https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg","")]] ^D hi |https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg| .. |https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg| image:: https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg ``` But we can use top, middle, or bottom alignment: ``` % pandoc -f native -t rst [Para [Str "hi",Space,Image ("",["align-top"],[]) [Str "https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg"] ("https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg","")]] ^D hi |https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg| .. |https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg| image:: https://pandoc.org/diagram.jpg :align: top ```