Mauro Bieg

Is this request fulfilled with http://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#custom-styles-in-docx-output ? (at least for docx)

Since this feature was [implemented in docx](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2542), we might think about doing the same for ODT, ICML and maybe LaTeX and [RST](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/3407) writers...

@simongareste Personally, I'm not too familiar with the ODT format... feel free to take a look at the [writer generating the OpenDocument format](https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/OpenDocument.hs) and the [one packaging it into a...

I'm reposting here some discussion from the now closed https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/2542 > +++ Mauro Bieg [Dec 31 15 09:38 ]: > > > In LaTeX those divs/spans could be rendered as...

In order to use the fenced div class syntax for custom-styles, the user has to specify his intent to use the div as such an environment - either by switching...

@DaveJarvis but you agree that the toggle-by-extension-approach has the disadvantage that in one document, you cannot use some divs for custom-styling while using other divs for other purposes, right?

So we have three options now (the exact naming/implementation is also still debatable): - mark up divs with `style-` prefixed class - `+environments` extension that would tell pandoc to treat...

@DaveJarvis and @iandol, you are mentioning not having to change the source document for different output formats. While I would usually agree with you that the pandoc conversion should "just...

> the conversion may create default styles if none exist in the reference.docx, but they will inherit from Normal Will this not lead to a huge list of styles that...

How do you propose the docx reader would recognize a column in the docx file? It would be just a special style, or..? You could also put in a special...