Issue converting CSS styles to HTML tags for DOCX; paragraphs are not retaining the corresponding styles during conversion.

[AndreCOLI]

I'm facing an issue when converting text with CSS styles inside HTML tags to DOCX. For example, <p style="text-align: center;">This text is centered.</p> is not being reflected correctly in the converted document.

One of the attempts to use the Lua filter with a reference DOCX document involved the following code:

function Para(elem)
  if elem.attr and elem.attr.attributes and elem.attr.attributes.style then
    local style = elem.attr.attributes.style
    local align = style:match("text%-align:%s*([%w%-]+)")
    if align then
      elem.attr.classes:insert("align-" .. align)
    end
  end
  return elem
end

,but without success.

[rnwst]

The Para element has no Attr, therefore the style attribute is lost when the HTML is read, and your filter isn't going to work either. You could wrap the <p> in a <div> with a style tag, that would work since a Div does have an Attr. Note that you need to use the custom-style attribute if you want the DOCX writer to use your styles.

You may also find some useful tips for generating DOCX files with pandoc in this article.