Re: docx writer: using styles from reference document

[Brandon Keith Biggs <brandonkeithbiggs-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Hello,
I would love a link in the documentation to a guide on using these filters,
because having a TOC, title page, controlling page numbers, and all that is
very common when using word.
Thanks,

Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>


On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 6:06 AM Alan <alan.mcl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I made some progress on this:
>
> 1. I got the cover page working by using the lua filter to remove all the
> meta data inlines then reconstructing it all as an "abstract" meta element.
> Handily the Abstract has Blocks not Inlines, so the custom styles work. And
> the TOC appears after the abstract.
>
> 2. Hard breaks remain a problem though. I can work around this on the
> cover page with some spacing, but that's not feasible for the rest of a
> typical document.
> Question: is the non-support hard breaks in Pandoc an intentional
> position, or is this just a gap that the community would be interested in
> filling if someone cared enough to implement it?
>
> One new challenge:
>
> 3. Page numbers. Can I use the lua filter to insert a page number footer
> in the generated docx?
>
> regards
> Alan
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 4:29 PM Alan <alan.mcl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> The lua filter approach is working reasonably well but I have a couple
>> more in depth questions. For context, my pandoc input format is docbook
>> generated from asciidoc.
>>
>> 1. Title, subtitle, author and other meta elements: how do I apply styles
>> to them?
>>  - I've tried wrapping them in Spans (inside a "function Pandoc(doc)") as
>> suggested by the custom-style docs, but they don't pick up any styles.
>>  - I tried turning them into Div/Para objects in the main body, but then
>> they appear after the generated TOC.
>> Basically I need to support setting up a cover page followed by a TOC.
>>
>> 2. Page breaks/hard breaks. They don't seem to be supported by the Pandoc
>> internal model. Any suggestions for getting around this?
>> Also related to the cover page need.
>>
>> regards
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 5:41 PM Alan <alan.mcl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the reply Jesse
>>>
>>> I did check out the custom styles, but you are right that I'd rather not
>>> embed that in every paragraph. I'm dealing with moderately large documents
>>> and it would get old pretty fast.
>>>
>>> I hadn't considered the lua filters yet. Good idea, I will give it a try.
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 5:36 PM Jesse Rosenthal <jrosenthal-4GNroTWusrE@public.gmane.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Alan McLachlan <alan.mcl-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>> > pandoc today generates the paragraph text set to "Normal"
>>>> > style, I want it to use "My Style 1" instead of Normal.
>>>>
>>>> This is a job for custom-styles:
>>>> https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#custom-styles
>>>>
>>>> So, one (not particularly user-friendly) way to do it would be to wrap
>>>> ever paragaph in a div, to give it a custom style
>>>>
>>>> ~~~
>>>> ::: {custom-style="My Style 1"}
>>>> Here is a paragraph.
>>>> :::
>>>>
>>>> ::: {custom-style="My Style 1"}
>>>> Here is another.
>>>> :::
>>>> ~~~
>>>>
>>>> But you probably don't want to do that -- instead, it would be nice to
>>>> just write as normal:
>>>>
>>>> ~~~
>>>> Here is a paragraph.
>>>>
>>>> Here is another.
>>>> ~~~
>>>>
>>>> and then have paragraphs converted on the fly. To do that, you'd use a
>>>> pandoc filter (https://pandoc.org/lua-filters.html):
>>>>
>>>> ~~~
>>>> function Para(blk)
>>>>    local attr = pandoc.Attr()
>>>>    attr.attributes["custom-style"] = "My Style 1"
>>>>    return pandoc.Div({blk}, attr)
>>>> end
>>>> ~~~
>>>>
>>>> That will convert all plain paras into a styled div. Save that in a file
>>>> (`style.lua`), and then run it on the simple markdown file:
>>>>
>>>> `pandoc input.md --lua-filter=styler.lua -o output.docx`
>>>>
>>>>
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