What I'm looking to do is write a docx and style it using a reference document, but I want the generated docx to use styles from the reference document, not the default Word styles.

For example: pandoc today generates the paragraph text set to "Normal" style, I want it to use "My Style 1" instead of Normal.

I've done some research and tested different approaches but can't quite get it working.

Hand crafting a reference.docx with the styles I need is not a great option because the reference docx I'm getting in is outside my control and subject to change (thanks corporate marketing dept).

1. Any suggestions for tackling this?

2. Failing that, is a pull request supporting this something you'd be interested in? My last Haskell was 20 years ago in uni, but the docx.hs code looks reasonably self contained and maybe I can put something together :)

regards

Alan