Configurable default styles for docx reader and writer as extension to custom styles

Configurable default styles for docx reader and writer as extension to custom styles

[Henning Schwentner]

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The custom style mechanism of the docx writer is great and makes my life as 
author much easier. A further improvement could be the following. What do 
you think?

So far, when converting to and from docx, a fixed set of styles is used by 
both the reader and writer. So we have styles “Body Text”, “Heading 1”, 
“Caption”, “Figure”, and so on. These correspond (of course) to the 
Markdown elements. This works great with using Pandoc’s standard 
reference.docx. But most publishers provide templates with their their 
own styles and their own names for them. Example: Pearson uses CHAP_TTL for 
chapter titles and CHAP_BM for body text.

My idea is to make the styles (in fact style names) configurable. So we 
could have a config file that defines the mapping. Something like:

Body Text = CHAP_BM
First Paragraph = HEADFIRST
Heading 1 = CHAP_TTL
Heading 2 = H1
Footnote Text = FN
…

This mapping file could then be used by both the reader and writer for 
convenient conversion.

Would that make sense to you?


Best,
Henning

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