Document Output

[knowtheory]

We'll go with exporting as a docx file.

There's a javascript library of the same name which should provide mostf of the functionality needed.

It is notably missing the ability to add attachments, so it won't be possible to include any legislative XML files unfortunately. ☹️

Additionally it's missing the ability to do line numbers (there's a pull request out for this), so if we include the line numbers we'll have to fake it with either a numbered list, or a columnar layout.

[knowtheory]

DocX output is a complicated topic!

For the purpose of this project the basics are definitely available:

• Font Sizing
• Font variations (bold, italic smallcaps)
• line spacing
• paragraph indentation
• page breaks.

From there the story gets more complicated, in part due to various document editors idiosyncrasies.

The major remaining piece for this project relies on two features:

• Line numbering
• Continuous section breaks.

Regretfully, only Microsoft's Desktop Word supports both of these features. Only LibreOffice supports line numbering. None of Google Docs, Apple's Pages.app or Word's web version support line numbers.

LibreOffice can support line numbering in sections, but at the expense of inserting additional page breaks.

[knowtheory]

We've gone the DocX route.