Verbatim text in headers

[Anton Shepelev <anton.txt-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hello, all

As distinct from other Markdown processors and other output
formats, while rendering DOCX output with Pandoc, inline
`verbatim` text in headers does not work so well, because it
inherits not only the font, but also the font size from the
`Verbatim Char' style. I do realise that it is the right
thing to do for running text because most monospace fonts
look better at a slightly decreased size (e.g. 12pt Times
New Roman and 11pt Courier New), but I still should like to
see nice typewriter text in headers:

                  ## The `switch` keyword

The only solution that I can now propose without introducing
new settings and otherwise compicating the DOCX rendered, is
smartly to infer the size for verbatim text for headers from
the `Verbatim char' style based on the size of the main
header font, using the proportion:

        verb_hdr = verb_base * hdr_size / base_size

where verb_hdr is font size to use for verbatim text in the
header, verb_base the base verbatim font size as specified
in the `Verbatim char' style, hdr_size the main font size in
the header as specified in the `Heading' style of the
corresponding level, and base_size the base font size as
specified in the `Body text' style. That way, Pandoc will
preserve the ratio between the size of the "typewriter" font
and of the font of the surrounding text.

I use this approach in my GNU Troff macros, and it works
well.

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