Re: Manually apply styles to output docx?

[Shane Liesegang <liesegang-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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After a bunch of investigation, I wanted to post what I figured out in case 
someone else comes across this. 

Pandoc will happily apply a custom style on whatever span or div you tell 
it to, but in this case the built-in "Strong" style is for a paragraph, not 
a character. Since I was trying to apply it to a span, Pandoc made a new 
style for characters, and then incremented the name so it wouldn't clash 
with the existing paragraph one. 

The same thing happens in reverse, if you try to apply a character style to 
a div. 

It makes sense once you understand it, but was definitely confusing to try 
and figure out. Maybe worth adding some admonitions in the document, but I 
know it's not meant as a tutorial for the docx format. 
On Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 6:33:53 AM UTC+3 Shane Liesegang wrote:

> 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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