yelluw / mistune-docx

Markdown to Docx converter

Mistune Docx Renderer

This tool merges a list of Markdown files into a brand new Docx file !

A template docx can be specified which implies that:

• The template defaults styles will be used and can be tweaked to change the appereance of the final document (This template needs to have the following styles defined: BasicUserQuote for blockquotes, BasicUserList for lists, BasicUserTable for tables)
• The template contents will be used as the first page(s) of the final documents

Markdown supported features:

• Paragraphs
• Bold and italic text
• Headers (level 1 to 5)
• Bullet lists
• Tables with cells containing simple text (normal, bold or italic)
• Blockquote
• Images
• Mathematical equations (using Sympy rendering)
• Link
• Page break

Every feature follow the common Markdown syntax. A list of examples can be seen into the example\ folder. Please remind that special characters such as % or " need to be espaced with a \ to be admissible.

How to use

python generate_doc.py output.docx --template example/template.docx --files example/*.md

The command requests:

• The name and location of the output file
• The name and location of the template file. If not specified, uses the defaults styles of the local Word installation and an empty document.
• The regex to locate the markdown files. If multiples Markdown files fits the specified regex, they will be prior assembled into one Markdown file following the alphabetic order.

Requirements

This tool has been tested with Python 3.5. See requirements.txt for all the libraries dependencies.