docx templates not working?

[Geoffrey King]

As far as i can tell from the documentation I should be able to use a docx file as a template to produce header and footer information in a final docx file. It didn't work for me. I am starting from markdown.

I stored my docx as "C:\Documents and Settings\USERNAME\Application Data\pandoc\templates\default.docx" but no luck

If this isn't possible. Is there are away to markup in a markdown template so that it will generate docx headers and footers?

Note: i don't mean a style reference.

Advice?

[John MacFarlane]

The only thing pandoc takes from the reference-docx are the styles
listed in the README. Headers and footers won't be carried over.
It would be nice to do this some day, but I haven't gotten that far.
Docx is really a pain to work with.


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[Geoffrey King]

Thanks for the clarification.

[Tapio Tallgren]

On Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:47:49 AM UTC+10, fiddlosopher wrote:

The only thing pandoc takes from the reference-docx are the styles
listed in the README.  Headers and footers won't be carried over.
It would be nice to do this some day, but I haven't gotten that far.
Docx is really a pain to work with.  

What about ODT? I could create the whole document as an odt document and then convert that to docx with Libreoffice.