DocumentAssembler: Text formatting?

[Marcel0024]

I couldn't find a way to format text in the document assembler. rtf/markdown/html or anything? Am i correct in this?

I'm willing to take a stab at it, with some guidance, does it happen anywhere else in the library that i can look how it should be done?

With some formatting, like bold, italic, underline and list would make this killer library.

[sergey-tihon]

I do not know (because I do not use it much)

But I think that if the placeholder already has styles applied (like bold/italic/underline) then DocumentAssemblier should insert text and preserve styles. Is not it?

[Marcel0024]

Yes it does. But that's for the whole variable. I want to add a big paragraph and format the text myself. So a long text with bold/italic a few words.

[sergey-tihon]

How complicated is your template document? Maybe you can use DocumentBuilder API?

You can generate Word document with arbitrary formatting and then merge multiple documents into one using DocumentBuilder.

https://github.com/sergey-tihon/Clippit/blob/net6/Clippit.Tests/Word/DocumentBuilderTests.cs#L172-L189

[Marcel0024]

Nice suggestion, but I don't think it will work. My templates are quite complicated. Users fill in their profile and can generate a Word document out of it with the company styling. So, some paragraphs inside tables need some formatting by the users.

[sergey-tihon]

Then I probably have nothing to offer ...

Maybe HtmlToWmlConverter.ConvertHtmlToWml? Generate HTML and convert it to Word? (never used this part of the library myself)

[MalcolmJohnston]

I am looking for a suitable home for a number of improvements that I have made to OpenXmlPowerTools over the years. One of the improvements is to support some inline formatting from HTML, including:

• Bold
• Underline
• Italic
• Hyperlinks

I would be happy to open a PR here if you have the time to review / merge it?

[sergey-tihon]

@MalcolmJohnston Sure, PRs are more than welcome, especially if they are relatively small, keep build green and ideally contain some tests 😀