Template file about officedown

[davidgohel]

You can use the following:

---
title: "Habits"
output:
  officedown::rdocx_document:
    reference_docx: you-doc.docx
---

You can read https://bookdown.org/yihui/rmarkdown/word-document.html to learn more about this.

[cderv]

Hi,

officedown::rdocx_document passes its arguments in ... to rmarkdown::word_document, so yes it should work to pass a reference doc to be used by pandoc. If it does not work it would be interesting to know what is going wrong.

did you try it already ?

[ramonskovitch]

Hi, Thank you for replyingYes I tried. But not sure where in the yaml to put the reference_docx = filename.docx. it fails if I put it before the output: statement or as an indented below the rdocx output statement.Will explore more today knowing it should work. Any suggestions appreciated though

[ramonskovitch]

After some more trials:

This works for word_doc output:
output:
word_document:
#reference_docx: ../styleref/undp_style-secnums.docx
#reference_docx: ../styleref/undp_style.docx
pandoc_args: --reference-doc=../styleref/undp_style.docx

So I am confident it is the correct pandoc_arg parameter
However in this scenario:
output:
officedown::rdocx_document
pandoc_args: --reference-doc=../styleref/undp_style.docx

there is and error:
Error in yaml::yaml.load(..., eval.expr = TRUE) :
Scanner error: mapping values are not allowed in this context at line 6, column 14
Calls: ... parse_yaml_front_matter -> yaml_load ->
Execution halted