Yep -- a few major styles (headers, block quotes) have been addressed in the reader to make sure they work in different languages.
As far as the question of user-defined paragraph styles go -- the main to-do now is parsing the style file for paragraph styles similarly to how we already do it for character styles. There are additional details and complications which make it a bit harder, but it's doable, and just waiting on developer time. Eventually, user-defined styles that inherit from some set of base semantic styles will work. (This is all in the reader.)
What will probably never work is being able to guess that your user defined style for headers which is just big and bold is really for headers. In other words, paragraph styles will have to inherit from something semantic, and not just be be a collection of visual character styles.
On Thursday, January 1, 2015 9:50:49 AM UTC-5, Ghlen Livid wrote:
I think what you are referring to is related to https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1607 and https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/1692, please see revelant discussions.
Basically, docx is a mess.