Pandoc conversion: is it possible to display some pages in landscape format?

[Yuri05]

While the word report converted via pandoc still should be in the portrait format: is it possible to display only the pages with tables in landscape format?

Theoretically should be possible via openXML, but I did not manage to get it working.

E.g. this did not work for me (in the converted word document all pages still had the same (portrait) orientation:

# My Document

This is some text. This page is in Portrait layout.

::: {custom-style="PageBreak"}
\ 
:::

```{=openxml}
<w:sectPr>
  <w:pgSz w:w="16838" w:h="11906" w:orient="landscape"/>
</w:sectPr>

Landscape Section

This is some text. This page is in Landscape layout.

::: {custom-style="PageBreak"}
\
:::

<w:sectPr>
  <w:pgSz w:w="11906" w:h="16838" w:orient="portrait"/>
</w:sectPr>

Portrait Section

This is some text. The page is back to Portrait layout.

[Yuri05]

s. also jgm/pandoc#7255

[Yuri05]

There is a solution with lua filter, but as described in this discussion it destroys header/footer.

I tried it out: indeed, required pages are inserted as landscape, but the header is destroyed (e.g. "Page X/Y" is not displayed on some pages):
pandoc --toc --from=markdown+tex_math_dollars+superscript+subscript+raw_attribute --reference-doc=reference2.docx -t docx -o test2.docx test2.md --lua-filter=docx-landscape.lua
Landscape_Lua.zip

[pchelle]

@Yuri05 I had a look at the .lua file.
It includes <w:p><w:pPr><w:sectPr></w:sectPr></w:pPr></w:p> to end a portrait section and it includes

<w:p>
  <w:pPr>
    <w:sectPr>
      <w:pgSz w:h="11906" w:w="16838" w:orient="landscape" />
    </w:sectPr>
  </w:pPr>
</w:p>

to end a landscape section.

I tested that out including the raw openxml code block ```{=openxml} and it worked.
But we have to be cautious of the positionning of these blocks to make them work the right way.

[Yuri05]

I tested that out including the raw openxml code block ```{=openxml} and it worked.
But we have to be cautious of the positionning of these blocks to make them work the right way.

Did you use our references.docx during the conversion and were the headers/footers (particularly the page numbering) kept?

[pchelle]

Did you use our references.docx during the conversion and were the headers/footers (particularly the page numbering) kept?

I used the reference, I get the same results as test2.docx: page number is only printed on the last page

[pchelle]

To include the footer/header from the default, we need to add the following within the section break (ie between <w:sectPr>)

<w:headerReference w:type="default" r:id="rId9"/>
<w:footerReference w:type="default" r:id="rId10"/>

I got the header/footer identifiers from the openxml content of the reference document, so it is not certain that the trick will work for user-defined reference documents.

[Yuri05]

Risky...

[pchelle]

When I first tested, I did not check the reference openxml content, so I used the wrong ids (1, 2, 3).
It simply resulted in the header and footer not present without corrupting the word document.

I also tried to modify the reference document by changing header and footer, both were rendered correctly.