Re: docx writer: using styles from reference document

["Agustín Martín" <agusmba-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Hi Alan.

I have gone through some of the issues you're experiencing.

We also get an official "corporate" word template, which unfortunately has 
been designed by graphic designers and not Word power users. Thus the 
template is difficult to work with, using many custom styles alternative to 
the standard ones like "This is my corporate title 3" (which is actually a 
level 2 title....), and suffering from bad choices like exact line spacing, 
or hard-to-change default fonts, or messing up the navigation panel.

Since we only get new templates every 1-2 years, what I do is I replicate 
the look and feel of the template in a sensible way (using standard style 
names, and taking advantage of what Word offers). If I get flack for doing 
it, I can always create aliases to the standard styles with the "new" 
names. In the end I start with a much better working template that uses 
standard styles.

I try to leave pagebreaks for level 1 titles (easy to define in the style, 
like you said). If I *really* need additional pagebreaks, I can always use 
a lua filter with a specific code-word in my markdown, but that is usually 
an indication that something is not quite as "clean" as it should be.

IMHO the hardest part to get is the second page of the document, if your 
template has specific items there such as a table with metadata from the 
document, etc. Especially if that has to come before the index. If you can 
get by having the index in the second page, you should be able to do most 
of what you want anyway.

Knowing that you can include document properties in your heading/footer 
reference doc, makes it really easy to customize the first page (different 
from the rest) and the rest of the document with your title, department, 
whatever-you-need. Pagenumbers definitely work!

Another thing that is not easily doable is if your template has different 
section formatting (like a last page without header/footer). I've only 
successfully worked with one-section reference docs.

Good luck and BR,
  Agustín.


On Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 4:26:26 PM UTC+2, Alan wrote:
>
> Thanks John, Jesse
>
> Yes, I meant page breaks. Sorry for not being clear.
> The raw openxml block approach works well, thanks for that. I need to mull 
> over whether to support a replacement element in the source document (eg 
> the horiz line) or just do something like add page breaks before L1 
> headers, but either way it should be doable.
>
> Footers: my reference.docx has got a footer, but it contains two elements: 
> an image and a page number. The page number text isn't making it to the 
> pandoc output, but the image is. I'm still tinkering with this to see if I 
> figure out what's going wrong.
>
> regards
> Alan
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 7:17 PM Jesse Rosenthal <jrose...-4GNroTWusrE@public.gmane.org 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> John MacFarlane <j...-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes:
>>
>> > You should be able to insert page breaks using a lua
>> > filter, though.  (You'd need to figure out exactly
>> > what openxml code to insert as raw openxml.)
>>
>> The openxml is:
>>
>>     <w:p><w:r><w:br w:type="page" /></w:r></w:p>
>>
>> So you should be able to insert that as a RawBlock with format "openxml".
>>
>>
>>
>>

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