[RFE] Font colors via filter about pandoc HOT 3 CLOSED

The reference doc would define a style (say "Foo") with the highlighting.
The lua filter would add custom-style="Foo" attributes to each paragraph that starts with the emoji.

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Right now we consider color a formatting detail, not part of the structure of the document pandoc is charged with preserving.

Adding support for color would require modifications to jgm/pandoc-types and a massive amount of work on all the readers and writers -- not to mention the wider pandoc ecosystem.

Apart from the work involved, I am not convinced that this is something we should support -- pandoc has to have limited ambitions, in order to be able to cover so many formats.

In your case (producing docx), you might look up pandoc's documentation on custom styles for docx.

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In your case (producing docx), you might look up pandoc's documentation on custom styles for docx.

I read that (and even used long ago), but in the current context I am not clear how to communicate to the Lua filter that I want to have certain style/color from the reference docx to be applied. I have a Markdown document and I want to use Lua filter to highlight in yellow every paragraph that starts with 📝 emoji. I have a filter that does that, but it has no effect for DOCX output. You're saying I can use reference docx. Okay, but how do I handle that in the filter then?

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