preserving blockquote spaces when converting from docx

preserving blockquote spaces when converting from docx

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

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Heya,
I'm using pandoc to convert documents exported from Google Docs in docx 
format to reStructuredText — or anything else, really, the issue I'm facing 
seems independent from the output format.
A concrete example is this 
document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wAMVrKIA2qtRGmoVDSUBJGmYZSygUaR0uOMW1GV3YE0/edit#heading=h.9zjhwskw53j8 
, which uses indented paragraphs for code samples.

I'm trying to preserve the spaces used for indentation in those code 
samples, but I'm failing to convince pandoc to do so.

The spaces I'm interested in are there in the docx. Here's an excerpt from 
its xml markup:

      <w:r w:rsidDel="00000000" w:rsidR="00000000" w:rsidRPr="00000000">
        <w:rPr>
          <w:rFonts w:ascii="Consolas" w:cs="Consolas" 
w:eastAsia="Consolas" w:hAnsi="Consolas"/>
          <w:sz w:val="20"/>
          <w:szCs w:val="20"/>
          <w:rtl w:val="0"/>
        </w:rPr>
        <w:t xml:space="preserve">2015-01-01 * "Taxi home from concert in 
Brooklyn"</w:t>
        <w:br w:type="textWrapping"/>
        <w:t xml:space="preserve">  Assets:Cash      -20 USD  ; inline 
comment</w:t>
        <w:br w:type="textWrapping"/>
        <w:t xml:space="preserve">  Expenses:Taxi</w:t>
      </w:r>

Beancount recognizes those paragraphs as blockquotes (not sure why, maybe 
on the basis of their indentation?), e.g.:

  ,BlockQuote
 [Para [Strong [Str ";",Space,Str "I",Space,Str "paid",Space,Str 
"and",Space,Str "left",Space,Str "the",Space,Str "taxi,",Space,Str 
"forgot",Space,Str "to",Space,Str "take",Space,Str "change,",Space,Str 
"it",Space,Str "was",Space,Str "cold.",LineBreak],Str 
"2015-01-01",Space,Str "*",Space,Str "\"Taxi",Space,Str "home",Space,Str 
"from",Space,Str "concert",Space,Str "in",Space,Str 
"Brooklyn\"",LineBreak,Str "Assets:Cash",Space,Str "-20",Space,Str 
"USD",Space,Str ";",Space,Str "inline",Space,Str "comment",LineBreak,Str 
"Expenses:Taxi"]]

but note how it has normalized spaces to single Space tokens used as 
separators.

Is there a way to tell pandoc to preserve those spaces, which are valuable 
to me, in anything it decides is a BlockQuote ?
(Note that this happens before external filters are called, so AFAICT I 
can't work around this using --filter)

Many thanks in advance,
Cheers.

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Re: preserving blockquote spaces when converting from docx

[John MACFARLANE]

You might try using nonbreaking spaces in the docx;
pandoc should preserve those.

Re: preserving blockquote spaces when converting from docx

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 10:09:10AM -0700, John MACFARLANE wrote:
> You might try using nonbreaking spaces in the docx;
> pandoc should preserve those.

Thanks for your answer! As I understand that would indeed work, but
unfortunately I don't control the documents myself. Also, it would be
annoying to change those spaces into nbsp, which they conceptually
aren't, just to make pandoc preserve them.

Is there really no way to hook into pandoc *before* it decides to remove
them?

Alternatively, what would be a definition of the policy that pandoc uses
to decide those are blockquotes? If nothing else works, what I can do is
writing a docx filter that adds the nbsp automatically, but I need to be
sure that I do that only where pandoc will "see" blockquotes.

TIA,
Cheers.
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