docx writer : Changeable Table style (not hard-coded)

[shutingrz]

I would like to use multiple styles of Table in a single docx, but the docx writer only allows the hard-coded "Table" style.

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/4340bd52c49b987087e123de2eae4464b300332f/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Docx/Table.hs#L79

There is an idea to achieve this with custom-styles in fenced_divs. It would be great to be able to use multiple Styles with this kind of syntax.

::: {custom-style="other-table-style"}
| Right | Left | Default | Center |
|------:|:-----|---------|:------:|
|   12  |  12  |    12   |    12  |
|  123  |  123 |   123   |   123  |
|    1  |    1 |     1   |     1  |
:::

There are a lot of issues related to docx writer tables, but none of them exist independently for this issue. I'm sorry if this is a duplicate. Thanks

[danblaker]

I would love to see support for custom-style in Table nodes. Being able to specify "NormalTable" or "GridTable" seems safe, given that they're part of the default Normal template in recent (>2016) versions of Word.

[jgm]

Since we have attributes on Table now in the AST, we could implement custom-style. This would require changing tableToOpenXML to take a parameter for a table style (to use instead of hardcoded "Table"). This parameter could be extracted from custom-style attribute in T.P.Writers.Docx around line 954 and passed to tableToOpenXML.

This would be expecting the custom-style attribute to be on the Table element itself, not an enclosing Div, so your example above wouldn't work out of the box. However, it would only take a Lua filter to migrate the custom-style to the Table itself.

[FabienSe]

I would love to have this feature to be added to the Docx writer. I currently have a docx file generated from a markdown file and I was looking around to be able to specify several style of table in this document. I was trying to write a custom filter to add custom-style to the Table element but sadly it was not possible since the table style is hard coded in the writer.

Since the description of the changes from @jgm was not that complicated, I looked to the code to may be help on this. Sadly since I have no experience in haskell language, It is hard for me to understand the code and how to add that 😢

Hope it can be added soon.