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jblachly opened this issue May 6, 2025 · 2 comments
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Docx Writer default list style indents fail for long lists #10821

jblachly opened this issue May 6, 2025 · 2 comments
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jblachly commented May 6, 2025 •
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Problem Statement
When creating docx files with a list longer than 99 items, the indent and hanging indent settings cause a visually-undesirable behavior (bug)

Reproduction

echo "<html><body><ol>" > /tmp/list.html && for i in {1..150}; do echo "<li>Number ${i}</li>" >> /tmp/list.html; done && echo "</ol></body></html>" >> /tmp/list.html
pandoc -f html -t docx -o /tmp/list.docx /tmp/list.html

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Alternative Better Indents:

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Root Cause

pandoc/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Docx.hs

Lines 727 to 729 in 379bc43

step = 720
hang :: Int
hang = 360

(I think )

Pandoc version?

pandoc 3.5
Features: +server +lua
Scripting engine: Lua 5.4

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jblachly commented May 6, 2025

As related issues indicate, as well as past discussion (https://inbox.vuxu.org/pandoc-discuss/[email protected]/), it would be a heavy lift to rewrite the List code to use list styles.

Are you open to simply changing the hardcoded values given that the defaults produce ugly docx?

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jgm commented May 6, 2025

I'm open to it -- as long as the new default is not ugly for the much more common case of one or two-digit list markers.

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