microsoft / microsoft/markitdown
Support mammoth options in docx converter
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Description
My specific issue is that two adjacent lists end up getting combined together along the process of docx --> html --> markdown.
As in:
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
in the docx end up converted as:
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
3. Item 3
4. Item 1
5. Item 2
6. Item 3
one way around this is to pass in ignore_empty_paragraphs=False into mammoth.convert_to_html so that the blank line between the lists ends up as <p></p>, which then causes markdownify to separate the lists properly. However, the DocxConverter does not allow for passing any options into mammoth.convert_to_html other than custom style maps.
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Research direction
Start at DocxConverter and inspect its call to mammoth.convert_to_html, including how custom style maps are passed. Reproduce the adjacent-list DOCX-to-HTML-to-Markdown case, then verify that an option such as ignore_empty_paragraphs=False can be forwarded and keeps the lists separate.
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- Tech stack
- python
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- content
- Issue type
- Feature
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