I'm using Pandoc to convert LaTeX to Markdown.  The conversion is great, except Pandoc adds "[" and "]" all over (example below).  How can I stop that?
1.  \[
    \] **a heading was here**
    Let...
The LaTeX is:
\item \points{1} \noindent\textbf{a heading was here} 
\points is a macro which I believe Pandoc just ignores (which is fine for my purposes).