Re: Preserving whitespace when converting from docx to html

[Daniel Staal <DStaal-Jdbf3xiKgS8@public.gmane.org>]

On 2/12/18 12:54 PM, John MACFARLANE wrote:
> There's no way to do it, sorry.  we try to capture document
> structure, and inevitably little stylistic details get lost.
> 
> +++ Phoebe Gao [Feb 12 18 08:31 ]:
>>   Does anyone know of a way to preserve whitespace when converting docx
>>   to html using Pandoc? When I have multiple spaces in my docx file (for
>>   formatting purposes), the outputted html replaces consecutive
>>   whitespaces with a single whitespace. Thanks! 

Also worth remembering is that HTML doesn't consider whitespace as 
significant - it collapses all whitespace.  So even if it was preserved, 
it wouldn't be persevered in the browser.

Daniel T. Staal

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