Customizing existing single line classes in ODT output from mk4ht oolatex

Question

As an extension to this question: Creating new single line classes in ODT output from mk4ht oolatex

I've been attempting to use this approach to reassign the style assigned in existing commands that have already been configured. The initial guidance provided in the comments of the linked question suggested starting from the \Configure{section} command found in ooffice.4ht

\Configure{section}
   {\IgnorePar\EndP \HCode{<!--start of section-->}}
   {\IgnorePar\EndP \HCode{<!--end of section-->}}
   {\HCode{<text:h
            text:style-name="\csname a:Heading-2\if@rl-rtl\fi
\endcsname"
                   \text:outlinelevel="2" ><text:span
                   text:style-name="section" >}\TitleMark\space
    \HCode{</text:span>}\IgnoreIndent}
   {\HCode{</text:h>\Hnewline}\par\ShowPar}

So I started playing around with this block as a starting point. But I've been unable to get this block to compile let alone customize with my own style names. I've tried to many permutations and scope changes to detail each here, but in short, I've tried:

1. simplifying the csname line to only contain my desired section name.
2. I've removed TeX code like the \TitleMark and \space.
3. I've also tried replacing the HCode portions with the customized HCode text inspired from the answer to the related question.
4. My setup seems sensitive to spaces so I've been playing around with this and % on line endings as well.

I get error messages at times complaining about the :h and the associated > character, but in general it only reports the typical Missing \begin{document} in myconfig.cfg

MWE:

test.tex

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\definecolor{specialtextcolor}{rgb}{0,0,1}
\newenvironment{test}
{\par\begin{color}{specialtextcolor}}
{\end{color}}
\usepackage[parfill]{parskip}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[export]{adjustbox}
\begin{document}
This is a normal paragraph.
\section{Custom style access test}
test text in the first level of section hierarchy
more text
\begin{test}
    This is a test environment.
\end{test}
more text
This is a blockquote environment
\begin{quote}
    This is a test quote environment.
\end{quote}
\end{document}

myconfig.cfg

\Preamble{xhtml}
% to simplify the things
\def\myendpar{\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP}
% configure the single line commands in Tex against their corresponding style in the template
\Configure{section}%
{\IgnorePar\EndP \HCode{<!--start of section-->}}%
{\IgnorePar\EndP \HCode{<!--end of section-->}}%
{\HCode{<text:h
        text:style-name="Heading-2">
        text:outlinelevel="2" ><text:span
        text:style-name="section" >}%
    %\TitleMark\space%
    \HCode{</text:span>}%
    %\IgnoreIndent%
}%
{\HCode{</text:h>\Hnewline}\par\ShowPar}%
% configure the environments in Tex against their corresponding style in the template
\ConfigureEnv{test}%
{%
    \myendpar\bgroup%
    % when you want to modify the paragraph style, you must redefine the paragraph configuration to use the test style name
    \Configure{HtmlPar}%
        {\EndP \HCode{<text:p text:style-name="test">}}%
        {\EndP \HCode{<text:p text:style-name="test">}}%
        {\HCode{</text:p>}}%
        {\HCode{</text:p>}}%
    \par\ShowPar%
}{\myendpar\egroup}{}{}%
\ConfigureEnv{quote}%
{%
    \myendpar\bgroup%
    % when you want to modify the paragraph style, you must redefine the paragraph configuration to use the test style name
    \Configure{HtmlPar}%
        {\EndP \HCode{<text:p text:style-name="quote">}}%
        {\EndP \HCode{<text:p text:style-name="quote">}}%
        {\HCode{</text:p>}}%
        {\HCode{</text:p>}}%
    \par\ShowPar%
}{\myendpar\egroup}{}{}%
\begin{document}
\EndPreamble

The example is compiled against a sample ODT template file with the command:

• as part of a linux shell script: make4ht -u --config "myconfig.cfg" --format "odt+odttemplate" "$FILE" odttemplate="$BASEDIR/refTemplates/basic.odt"
• or as part of a bat file on windows: "%MikTexPath%%htxCompiler%" --config "myconfig.cfg" --format "odt+odttemplate" "%%~nxA" odttemplate="./refTemplates/basic.odt"

If I've completely missed the mark, how else could I change the mapping of styles in existing commands?

Answer 1

I get errors with your mwe.cfg mainly because: you use undeclared \Configure{SectionTitleTest} and because of missing fifth argument for \Configure{section}.

I can compile your file with the following fixes:

\Preamble{xhtml}
% to simplify the things
\def\myendpar{\ifvmode\IgnorePar\fi\EndP}
% configure the single line commands in Tex against their corresponding style in the template
%\Configure{SectionTitleTest}{\myendpar\HCode{<text:p text:style-name="section-title">}}{\HCode{</text:p>}}
\NewConfigureOO{section-title}
\ConfigureOO{section-title}{<style:style style:name="section-title" style:family="paragraph" style:class="text">
    <style:text-properties style:text-underline-style="solid"

    style:text-underline-width="auto"
    style:text-underline-color="font-color"

    />
    </style:style>}
\Configure{section}%
{\IgnorePar\EndP \HCode{<!--start of section-->}}%
{\IgnorePar\EndP \HCode{<!--end of section-->}}%
{\HCode{<text:h
        text:style-name="Heading 1"
        text:outlinelevel="2" ><text:span
        text:style-name="section" >}%
    %\TitleMark\space%
    \HCode{</text:span>}%
    %\IgnoreIndent%
}{\HCode{</text:h>}}%
% \Configure{section}
%    {\IgnorePar\EndP \HCode{<!--start of section-->}}
%    {\IgnorePar\EndP \HCode{<!--end of section-->}}
%    {\HCode{<text:h
%             text:style-name="\csname a:Heading-2\if@rl-rtl\fi\endcsname"
%                    text:outlinelevel="2" ><text:span
%                    text:style-name="section" >}\TitleMark\space
%     \HCode{</text:span>}\IgnoreIndent}
%    {\HCode{</text:h>\Hnewline}\par\ShowPar}
% configure the environments in Tex against their corresponding style in the template
\ConfigureEnv{test}%
{%
    \myendpar\bgroup%
    % when you want to modify the paragraph style, you must redefine the paragraph configuration to use the test style name
    \Configure{HtmlPar}%
        {\EndP \HCode{<text:p text:style-name="test">}}%
        {\EndP \HCode{<text:p text:style-name="test">}}%
        {\HCode{</text:p>}}%
        {\HCode{</text:p>}}%
    \par\ShowPar%
}{\myendpar\egroup}{}{}%
\ConfigureEnv{quote}%
{%
    \myendpar\bgroup%
    % when you want to modify the paragraph style, you must redefine the paragraph configuration to use the test style name
    \Configure{HtmlPar}%
        {\EndP \HCode{<text:p text:style-name="quote">}}%
        {\EndP \HCode{<text:p text:style-name="quote">}}%
        {\HCode{</text:p>}}%
        {\HCode{</text:p>}}%
    \ShowPar%
}{\myendpar\egroup}{}{}%
\begin{document}
\EndPreamble

Another fix I've added was that I removed \par from \ConfigureEnv{quote}, because this resulted in spurious empty paragraph that showed in the document.

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