Thank you for the reply, John, and for this awesome tool.

Regardless, I have tried now again with -t docx+styles as you suggest and am getting the same results. I have also tried adding the styles to my input: -f markdown+styles but get the same results. Side question, does it matter whether  extensions are added to the -f or -t formats?

On Sunday, February 10, 2019 at 9:29:28 AM UTC-6, John MacFarlane wrote:

Did you specify the styles extension (-t docx+styles)
on the command line?

Phil <phillip...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:

> On Pandoc 2.6, I am converting from markdown to docx. I am trying to learn
> and use the custom styles for docx output and am getting some odd behavior.
> I am using the examples text straight from the Pandoc User Guide. I have
> only substituted the name of my custom style that is defined in my
> reference.docx.
>
> Just placing the following in my markdown file results in no styled text:
> [Get out]{custom-style="greyBackground"}, he said.
>
> But placing this in my markdown file results in styled text:
> ::: {custom-style="greyBackground"}
> | A Bird came down the Walk---
> | He did not know I saw---
> :::
>
> And placing both of the following contiguously in my markdown file results
> in neither having the styled text:
> [Get out]{custom-style="greyBackground"}, he said.
>
> ::: {custom-style="greyBackground"}
> | A Bird came down the Walk---
> | He did not know I saw---
> :::
>
> Am I doing something wrong with the bracketed span style? Not sure what it
> could be since I am copying nearly directly from the example in the user
> guide. Is this a bug, or is there some trick or consideration I am not
> getting?
>
> Thanks.
> Phil
>
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