How to control indentation of lists in docx with Pandoc?

How to control indentation of lists in docx with Pandoc?

[Mikhail Matrosov]

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I convert AsciiDoc to Word via DocBook. The db->docx conversion is done 
with Pandoc and is the most interesting.

I provide a reference file with --reference-doc. I specified indentation 
for the Body Text style in the reference file. Now text is indented. But 
lists are not.

While digging through the contents of the generated docx I discovered that 
you cannot control indentation of list items directly. Instead, you specify 
numPr/numId. From document.xml:

    <w:p>
      <w:pPr>
        <w:numPr>
          <w:ilvl w:val="0"/>
          <w:numId w:val="1002"/>
        </w:numPr>
      </w:pPr>
      <w:r>
        <w:t xml:space="preserve">This is the list</w:t>
      </w:r>
    </w:p>
    
There is a corresponding definition in numbering.xml:

  <w:num w:numId="1002">
    <w:abstractNumId w:val="99401"/>
    ...
  </w:num>
  
And there is the definition of w:abstractNum in the same file:

  <w:abstractNum w:abstractNumId="99401">
    <w:multiLevelType w:val="multilevel"/>
    <w:lvl w:ilvl="0">
      ...
      <w:pPr>
        <w:ind w:left="480" w:hanging="480"/>
      </w:pPr>
    </w:lvl>
    
Here we finally have the indentation. If I edit it here in the generated 
docx, it works, I can see how the lists are indented.

But how do I do this in the reference docx? I don't even see this strange 
w:abstractNumId="99401" in it. And if I add it, it gets overwritten.

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Re: How to control indentation of lists in docx with Pandoc?

[Anton Shepelev]

Mikhail Matrosov:

> I  convert  AsciiDoc  to  Word  via  DocBook.  The
> db->docx conversion is done with Pandoc and is the
> most interesting.
>
> I provide a reference file with --reference-doc. I
> specified indentation for the Body Text  style  in
> the  reference  file.  Now  text  is indented. But
> lists are not.
>
> While digging through the contents of the generat-
> ed  docx  I discovered that you cannot control in-
> dentation of list items directly. [...]

I have the same problem, but did not dig into it  so
deep.  Thanks for the research.

My  problem  has been discussed here in a thread ti-
tled:

   Adjusting the indentation of nested numbered lists in docx
   ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/F9MaKcb5xZo )

where the experts told be the  indentation  is  cur-
rently  hardcoded(!).  I created a Github issue with
some proposals of how to fix it (in terms of outward
behavoir, not implementation):

   Support customisable indentation of nested lists in .docx output
   ( https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/6586 )

I far as I understand, it is somewhat hard to do and
requires extra coupling between the  general  pandoc
engine and the DOCX renderer. Yet is not a reason to
leave the indentation hardcoded.

A similar difficulty arises when putting code blocks
and  lists  inside  definitions.   If the definition
style has an indent, the code and  lists  are  still
unindented, which is of course unintended.

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Re: How to control indentation of lists in docx with Pandoc?

[Tomáš Kruliš]

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Have you tryed to create a style only for lists? If you would assign it as 
a `fenced_div`, it could work.

Look at user manual, part about "Custom styles."

Dne úterý 11. srpna 2020 10:09:14 UTC+2 Mikhail Matrosov napsal(a):
>
> I convert AsciiDoc to Word via DocBook. The db->docx conversion is done 
> with Pandoc and is the most interesting.
>
> I provide a reference file with --reference-doc. I specified indentation 
> for the Body Text style in the reference file. Now text is indented. But 
> lists are not.
>
> While digging through the contents of the generated docx I discovered that 
> you cannot control indentation of list items directly. Instead, you specify 
> numPr/numId. From document.xml:
>
>     <w:p>
>       <w:pPr>
>         <w:numPr>
>           <w:ilvl w:val="0"/>
>           <w:numId w:val="1002"/>
>         </w:numPr>
>       </w:pPr>
>       <w:r>
>         <w:t xml:space="preserve">This is the list</w:t>
>       </w:r>
>     </w:p>
>     
> There is a corresponding definition in numbering.xml:
>
>   <w:num w:numId="1002">
>     <w:abstractNumId w:val="99401"/>
>     ...
>   </w:num>
>   
> And there is the definition of w:abstractNum in the same file:
>
>   <w:abstractNum w:abstractNumId="99401">
>     <w:multiLevelType w:val="multilevel"/>
>     <w:lvl w:ilvl="0">
>       ...
>       <w:pPr>
>         <w:ind w:left="480" w:hanging="480"/>
>       </w:pPr>
>     </w:lvl>
>     
> Here we finally have the indentation. If I edit it here in the generated 
> docx, it works, I can see how the lists are indented.
>
> But how do I do this in the reference docx? I don't even see this strange 
> w:abstractNumId="99401" in it. And if I add it, it gets overwritten.
>

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Re: How to control indentation of lists in docx with Pandoc?

[Mikhail Matrosov]

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Thanks for the link. I posted my findings as a comment.