Detecting custom fonts in docx conversions

[andrew-danieli-fj]

I've just noticed that during the docx -> html conversion, text which was styled "Courier New" isn't taking the font style across to the output. I tried using -f docx+styles on the command line but can't tell if the extension is installed (the output doesn't change by the way). I'm using the latest version for windows, which according to pandoc -v returns:-

pandoc.exe 3.7.0.2
Features: +server +lua
Scripting Engine: Lua 5.4
:

Do I need to do anything special to get the extension working? As I'm trying to get an almost 1-2-1 match with the old "save as filtered html" generated by Word, I'd really like to find any "Courier New" text and convert it to a Code style which I can then tweak to match in my CSS style sheet.

[denismaier]

The styles extension won't detect fonts. You will need to apply styles to the relevant sections. These will then show up as divs or spans. So, in Word, create style named "my-code" or something and apply that to the text now in Courier New.

[andrew-danieli-fj]

Thanks. Given the size of the word document, I'm going to need a series of VBA macros to prep it ready for the Pandoc conversion. I've got a simple "search and highlight" macro which can find the code text, I just need to modify it to do a search, and switch style.

Once that's done, I'll see what comes out in the Pandoc AST.

I'm definitely building up a conversion pipeline, but the nice thing is that the output will be consistent.

[andrew-danieli-fj]

Right. I've just run pandoc against my document where I'd run the "search and highlight" macro, and the docx reader has converted all the blocks of highlighted text to <mark> tags in the html, which means they appear as "highlighted" text in the html using the default CSS styling for the tag. By changing the CSS style from the default to the following:-

mark {
   font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
   font-size: 12pt;
   background-color: white;
}

I get my code formatting back to the way I wanted without the need to create a new docx style and try to convert the inline font changes to this new style.

I know its a side effect but for my needs it gets the job done. The only thing I can see that would be a benefit would be to bring across the docx highlight colour used, which would allow marks of different colours to be styled separately in the html.