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Thank you for this effort. Today I tried to use your filter

 pandoc -t odt+smart --lua-filter odt-custom-styles.lua "Cattolicesimo romano e forma politica".md -o "Cattolicesimo romano e forma politica".odt

but I get this error message:

Error running filter odt-custom-styles.lua: [string "odt-custom-styles.lua"]:7: unexpected symbol near '<'

and so: no conversion

Hey @jzeneto,

Thanks for the filters. I'm still wrapping my head around the lua syntax and what's being done in odt-custom-styles.lua, but I think I'll be able to contribute back once I do.

So, the custom styles are not being created for me.

Here's my command:
pandoc Thinspace.html --lua-filter ./pandoc-odt-filters/odt-custom-styles.lua -o thinspace-pandoc3.odt

I have markup that looks like this:
<div custom-style="scene-sep" class="scene-sep" style="text-align: center;">* * * * *</div>

It is styled on output in odt as Text body, and there is no custom style created called scene-sep as expected.

I'll dive into this in the evening, but any leads as to why this is not working?

Also, I have full control over input markup. (I wrote a bunch of gulp plugins to coerce my md files into the output html structure.)

I saw that here you are using a replacement function to just look up a value in a table. The function is unnecessary since if you pass a table with string keys and values as the replacement argument to string.gsub Lua will automatically use the first capture (or the whole match if there was no capture) as a key to look up in the table and use the value of that key as replacement, so you can replace that with

  text = string.gsub(text, escPattern, escapes)

and it will have the exact same effect, except that since no extra Lua function is created and called every time it is much more efficient. (You will still need a function if you want to look up another capture than the first one of course!)

hello - tested this out of curiosity - it seems tables do not show properly because the included text is somehow converted to paragraph style