Change to DOCX template

[mfm-ca]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

If it is in a separate file, it is even simpler -- probably needs only a single line. Look around line 250 in container.py (the same file that has create_skeleton)

I've managed to change the source to get the desired setting in the DOCX output, but based on your comment, I wonder if what I did was unnecessary or, worse, erroneous. I ended up with one line modified in from_html.py, and four lines added and two lines modified in container.py.

I should note that I am not proficient in Python or OO methodologies. I am old-school (and old!) when it comes to programming and scripting. But I do have a knack for reading unfamiliar code or coding languages and figuring it out, at least well enough to be dangerous.

[kovidgoyal]

As long as it does what you want, the number of lines of code it takes is entirely irrelevant.

[tafr]

I need to incorporate a template called WordbokBlind.dot into the conversion to docx. What is the full path to the conversion.py and what code is to be added and where should the .dot file be placed?

The container.py flle I am looking at is placed in the usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/docx/writer

and contains these first lines:

#!/usr/bin/python2.7
# vim:fileencoding=utf-8
from __future__ import (unicode_literals, division, absolute_import,
print_function)

__license__ = 'GPL v3'
__copyright__ = '2013, Kovid Goyal <kovid at kovidgoyal.net>'

[kovidgoyal]

Once again, there is no support for templates of any kind in calibre docx conversions. If you want to modify the docx generated by calibre, you have to modify the source code.