`.landscape` does not keep page size for Word (enforce "A4" in landscape whilst default doc is US Letter)

[mcanouil]

I don't think there an easy or even a fix for this at least not by simply injecting OpenXML code.

Using the landscape shortcode for Word document will also have another issue: the page/section dimension might me different to the portrait page/section because the dimension is hardcoded in the shortcode.

In OpenXML, a new section has to contains height, width, etc. and as far as I know don't inherits elements, thus since footer is not defined in the section, it's not there in the end.

For instance, here is what the community contributed landscapes shortcode does for Word:

• quarto-cli/src/resources/filters/quarto-post/landscape.lua

  Lines 11 to 23 in d4125e4

  	-- Define the end of a portrait section for DOCX
  	local end_portrait_section = ooxml '<w:p><w:pPr><w:sectPr></w:sectPr></w:pPr></w:p>'
  	-- Define the end of a landscape section for DOCX
  	local end_landscape_section = ooxml [[
  	<w:p>
  	<w:pPr>
  	<w:sectPr>
  	<w:pgSz w:h="11906" w:w="16838" w:orient="landscape" />
  	</w:sectPr>
  	</w:pPr>
  	</w:p>
  	]]

Originally posted by @mcanouil in #12628

[cscheid]

w:h="11906" w:w="16838" this, presumably, is the width and height. I don't know what units they're in, and I don't know what size we end up producing. But if we knew the latter (someone with Microsoft Word installed can tell us) then we can deduce the former, and from there we can create a configurable setting. It's not going to be automatic, but it will at least be fixable.

[cscheid]

This is my life now:

[cscheid]

Ok, the unit is 1/20th of a point, cf Section 17.6.13, page 585:

[cscheid]

one inch is 72 points, so this entry is in 1/1440's of an inch.

[mcanouil]

Sorry, I had all those informations (I forgot to open this issue already and remembered today).
The hardcoded values are for the US Letter format.

The issue is not really the size, but the fact that the sections do not inherit from the document and are required to have width/height set.

The main issue with that is you can't retrieve the width/height dynamically (at least I did not find a way to do that easily by injecting OpenXML), so you would need to extract that information from the reference document itself.

[mcanouil]

Actually, it's the other way around: the reference document is using US Letter format, but the landscape filter uses A4 for landscape.

[cderv]

But if we knew the latter (someone with Microsoft Word installed can tell us)

I have microsoft word if you need me to look at something specific or do some tests

[mcanouil]

FYI:

---
format: docx
---

## Portrait Page

{{< lipsum 1 >}}

## Landscape Page

:::: {.landscape}
{{< lipsum 1 >}}
:::

quarto render index.qmd --to docx
unzip -d my-document-content index.docx

Archive:  index.docx
  inflating: my-document-content/[Content_Types].xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/_rels/.rels  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/document.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/_rels/document.xml.rels  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/_rels/footnotes.xml.rels  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/numbering.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/styles.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/footnotes.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/comments.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/docProps/core.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/docProps/app.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/docProps/custom.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/theme/theme1.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/settings.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/webSettings.xml  
  inflating: my-document-content/word/fontTable.xml  

What you want in this case is: my-document-content/word/document.xml

[cscheid]

The main issue with that is you can't retrieve the width/height dynamically (at least I did not find a way to do that easily by injecting OpenXML), so you would need to extract that information from the reference document itself.

Sure, but we can (for example) read key-value attributes from the .landscape div and use those values if they're given.