Re: Feature Idea: docx -> HTML table styling

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

On 6/16/22 1:21 PM, John MacFarlane wrote:
> I don't know what the best solution is.  Pandoc is really
> designed to preserve the features of documents that are encoded
> in its types.  Anything else  -- including the use of
> "stringly typed" attributes -- is a bit of a hack, and tends to
> lead to unmaintainable messes down the road.
> 
> We could try to establish some generic conventions for
> representing things like vertical-alignment in the attributes,
> e.g. with a "vertical-align" attribute that gets interpreted
> by different writers, but as I said, once we depart from the
> structured types things get to be a bit of a mess.

A thought: One option would be to suggest some generic conventions for 
readers, but maintain that *writers* will ignore anything not in the 
official AST.  This would allow people like the original poster to 
handle many issues with custom LUA filters/writers, and if any 
particular attribute becomes widespread in readers you can decide if you 
want to adopt it into the official AST and add it to writers.

Of course, it does tend to push Pandoc more to being a platform for 
converters than strictly a converter itself.

Daniel T. Staal

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