Pandoc ignores reference-doc styles

[arkadyb]

Pandoc completely ignores the styles customized and passed in with reference-doc argument.
According to README, I have generated the custom-reference.docx:

pandoc -o custom-reference.docx --print-default-data-file reference.docx

I then opened the docx (using OO) and changed every single text color.
Next i created a very simple md file:

Document Title

Subtitle

Normal text

Subsubtitle

Normal text

Then used custom-reference.docx in reference-doc argument:

pandoc -o test.docx --reference-doc=custom-reference.docx demo.md

In the output all the headings writtem in blue (default) color.

pandoc 2.8.1 (installed via brew)

[jgm]

As the manual says, only certain styles in the reference doc will make a difference. The manual gives a complete list of these styles.

Are you changing the styles themselves, or just changing the color of the (sample) text?

Which styles are you changing?

[arkadyb]

As the manual says, only certain styles in the reference doc will make a difference. The manual gives a complete list of these styles.

Are you changing the styles themselves, or just changing the color of the (sample) text?

Which styles are you changing?

Yes you were right. I was updating the text color, not the style. Works ok with styles.

[quintonn]

This helped me too.
It makes sense now that I think about it, but it's not the most obvious thing to edit the style rather than the document directly.