<w:bCs> [complex script] being ignored when convert from docx to anything

[remy33]

Tested on last and nighties.

An important thing to note is that properties make a distinction between the two groups of characters, normal and complex script (Arabic, for instance), and that the properties have a different tag depending on which type of character it’s affecting.

Most normal script property tags have a matching complex script tag with an added “C” specifying the property is for complex scripts. For example: <w:i> (italic) becomes <w:iCs>, and the bold tag for normal script, <w:b>, becomes <w:bCs> for complex script.

Sometimes there is both so there is no bug, but at some documents there is only <w:bCs> tags and thus the bolding doesn't work.

In short a docx with this
`-<w:r w:rsidRPr="00597F15">

-<w:rPr>

<w:rFonts w:hint="cs"/>

<w:b/>

<w:bCs/>

<w:rtl/>

</w:rPr>

<w:t>שלום</w:t>

</w:r>`

Will work, but this:
`-<w:r>

-<w:rPr>

<w:rFonts w:cs="David" w:hint="cs"/>

<w:bCs/>

<w:rtl/>

</w:rPr>

<w:t>שלום</w:t>

</w:r>`
Won't work

But if I'll open the zip and replace all the <w:bCs/>into <w:b/> it would work flawless.

Basically that's a complex script support problem.

Thanks in advance.

[remy33]

An idea of how to fix it would be to work like MSword does, if he sees w:hint="cs" he is only looks for the tags ending with Cs.
In the example above you can see that if you edit the XML so it would have:
`<w:rFonts w:cs="David" w:hint="cs"/>

<w:b/>`
Word won't show the bold ( but Pandoc would convert with bold ).

[jgm]

It would be easy to have pandoc bold anything that has w:bCs in its properties (treating this just like w:b). This wouldn't have exactly the same semantics, because w:bCs just says to bold the complex script texts, but my sense is that it would work well enough for 99% of the cases -- is that right?

Also, it would be helpful to know whether there are other similar Cs properties we should be looking at, e.g. w:iCs?

[remy33]

As far as I understood , w:bCs is the same as w:b but it's for complex script (foreign languages ), and thus if there is no reason to have w:bCs tag on regular English or w:b in Hebrew.
But if you do use w:bCs without use the w:hint="cs, (for example mixing old Word versions or editing the XML file directly) this 1% will cause an extremely hard bug.
But from what I sew in word 2016 it added both tags ( like in my example above ).

Forth on your second question I only saw this misbehave with bold and underline, for some reason italic was fine even I didn't look in dept to see why.

[jgm]

I've pushed a fix. It could use testing, if you want to grab the nightly tomorrow.

[remy33]

Working flawless. :-)