That was my understanding of that line in the documentation, too. But I'm 
not sure if my understanding is wrong (and I can't do this), or if the 
documentation is wrong (and the current behavior is intended), or if the 
current behavior is wrong (and it's a bug). 

On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 12:43:11 PM UTC+3 denis...-NSENcxR/0n0@public.gmane.org wrote:

> I would have expected the same given the documentation says «For docx 
> output, styles will be defined in the output file as inheriting from normal 
> text, if the styles are not yet in your reference.docx. If they are already 
> defined, pandoc will not alter the definition.» 
>
>  
>
> *Von:* pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org <pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org> *Im 
> Auftrag von *Shane Liesegang
> *Gesendet:* Sonntag, 15. Mai 2022 14:28
> *An:* pandoc-discuss <pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>
> *Betreff:* Manually apply styles to output docx?
>
>  
>
> I've customized a reference.docx file for applying styles to an exported 
> Word document, and am attempting to follow the instructions from the Custom 
> Styles <https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#custom-styles> section of the 
> manual. If I'm reading the documentation right (and I may not be!) if I 
> attempt to apply a custom style that is already defined in the reference 
> document, it will not redefine it but apply the existing style. 
>
>  
>
> However, when I do something like this in markdown+bracketed_spans: 
>
>  
>
> [my strong text]{custom-style="Strong"}
>
>  
>
> And there is already a "Strong" style in the reference file, I find the 
> span instead has a new style applied to it called "Strong1". 
>
>  
>
> Is there any way I can manually apply styles to Markdown text for docx 
> output? 
>
>  
>
> Thanks for any help / letting me know where I misunderstand. 
>
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