Add styling rules in pandoc tables for odt/docx output (table borders)

Question

I\'m generating some odt/docx reports via markdown using knitr and pandoc and am now wondering how you\'d go about formating tables. Primarily I\'m interested in adding rule

Answer 1

Using a reference docx file and then python-docx does the job pretty easily :

https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/

First convert your document to docx :

Bash :

pandoc --standalone --data-dir=/path/to/reference/ --output=/tmp/xxx.docx input_file.md

Notes :

• /path/to/reference/ points to the folder containing reference.docx
• reference.docx is a file containing the styles you need for docx elements

Then give the tables of your document the style you want to use :

Python :

import docx
document = docx.Document('/tmp/xxx.docx')
for table in document.tables:
    table.style = document.styles['custom_style'] # custom_style must exist in your reference.docx file