Adding boilerplate text in docx

Adding boilerplate text in docx

[Chanamel Ungar]

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Hey,

Currently have a few issues with the docx transformation I wonder if you 
good folks could help me with:

1. I have some boilerplate text that needs to be inserted in *most*, but 
not all docx generated from a source markdown file. It needs to appear as a 
footnote of the first page of the document. What would be the best way to 
do this?

2. Currently, the date in the generated docx is automatically set to today. 
Is there any way to pass in a specific date into the document?

3. Is there any way in markdown to create tables with merged cells?

I.e. 

| A | B |
-----------
|fruit | apple |    80kcal     |
|       |  pear  |       60kcal   |
| veg | carrot | 30kcal |


The fruit cell should be merged


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Re: Adding boilerplate text in docx

[John MacFarlane]

Chanamel Ungar <Chanamel-Rw1WCSvBAmdUkLafFIKz2WXnswh1EIUO@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Hey,
>
> Currently have a few issues with the docx transformation I wonder if you
> good folks could help me with:
>
> 1. I have some boilerplate text that needs to be inserted in *most*, but
> not all docx generated from a source markdown file. It needs to appear as a
> footnote of the first page of the document. What would be the best way to
> do this?

It would be relatively easy to write a filter that adds a
footnote to an element, say the title.

> 2. Currently, the date in the generated docx is automatically set to today.
> Is there any way to pass in a specific date into the document?

Yes, if you're going from markdown, just include the date in your metadata:

---
title: Whatever
date: July 3, 2021
...

> 3. Is there any way in markdown to create tables with merged cells?
>
> I.e.
>
> | A | B |
> -----------
> |fruit | apple |    80kcal     |
> |       |  pear  |       60kcal   |
> | veg | carrot | 30kcal |

No, not with native md tables.  But you could include an HTML
table and use a special filter to parse it.

This is due to BPJ on this list:
https://groups.google.com/g/pandoc-discuss/c/seVGKkR-bKQ/m/UoOUx8GxAAAJ


```lua
function RawBlock (raw)
  if 'html' == raw.format then
    local html = raw.text
    local doc = pandoc.read(html, 'html')
    if doc then return doc.blocks end
  end
  return nil
end
```