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 On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 6:06 AM Alan 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 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 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 >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Alan McLachlan 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` >>>> >>>> >>>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pandoc-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/CABQ_dt_VkYEL5ED8i8Wo7GUeNA-Kgwyzjpzw2V%3DvdWYt1%2BkCLg%40mail.gmail.com > > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/CAKAWQkXpaypSpUU62p%3DFr_bhyLhLuAKMQ18MOy2TzTu6LmV3jg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.