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TobiSonne
TobiSonne

Reputation: 1107

How to get formatting of styles in Word document in officer?

I want to write some documents with officer and I have some predefined styles in my word document that I load with read_docx(). Now I can look at the styles but I especially want to know which font type or which font size each style has and I cannot find that. This is all I can find:

Document <- read_docx(FILEPATH)
head(Document$styles)
  style_type style_id style_name is_custom is_default
1  paragraph   Normal     Normal     FALSE       TRUE
2  paragraph Heading1  heading 1     FALSE      FALSE
3  paragraph Heading2  heading 2     FALSE      FALSE
4  paragraph Heading3  heading 3     FALSE      FALSE
5  paragraph Heading4  heading 4     FALSE      FALSE
6  paragraph Heading5  heading 5     FALSE      FALSE

Unfortunately there is no column with the font size or font type. I really need to have the font size (for example 10) and font type (for example "Times New Roman") of heading 1 in R because the argument style of the function body_add_par is not enough for my purposes. Is there a way to get this?

Edit: It also would be great if the solution is not from officer.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1628

Answers (1)

Allan Cameron
Allan Cameron

Reputation: 173813

I couldn't find a way to do this in officer. In fact, in the end I had to parse the xml contents of the docx to get the fonts.

It turns out that not all styles have a font set. Some inherit from other styles, and some just take the default value given by Word. Anyway, parsing the xml is pretty involved, so this is a bit involved / messy.

First you need to unzip the docx to get its style xml. If you have officer you will also have the required zip package, so we'll use this:

library(zip)
doc_path <- "my_file_path.docx"
unzip(doc_path, files = "word/styles.xml", exdir = path.expand("~/"))

Now we need to parse the xml:

Edit

As pointed out in the comments by @TobiSonne, the sz values are in half points, not points, so we need to half them to get the fonts' point sizes.

read_xml(path.expand("~/word/styles.xml")) %>%
xml_nodes(xpath = "//w:style")             %>%
lapply(xml_new_root)                       %>%
lapply(function(x) data.frame(
  name = x %>% xml_node(xpath = "//w:name") %>% xml_attr("val"),
  based_on = x %>% xml_node(xpath = "//w:basedOn") %>% xml_attr("val"),
  font = x %>% xml_node(xpath = "//w:rFonts") %>% xml_attr("ascii"),
  size = x %>% xml_node(xpath = "//w:sz") %>% xml_attr("val") %>% as.numeric() %>% `/`(2),
  stringsAsFactors = F)) %>%
{do.call("rbind", .)} -> font_table

This gives us the font table, but there are lots of missing values to infer from inheritance etc:


read_xml(path.expand("~/word/styles.xml")) %>%
xml_node(xpath = "//w:docDefaults//w:rPr") %>% 
xml_new_root -> defaults

default_size <- xml_node(defaults, xpath = "//w:sz") %>% 
                xml_attr("val") %>%
                as.numeric() %>%
                `/`(2)
default_font <- xml_node(defaults, xpath = "//w:rFonts") %>% xml_attr("ascii")
if(is.na(default_font))
  default_font <- xml_node(defaults, xpath = "//w:rFonts") %>% xml_attr("asciiTheme")

font_table$size[is.na(font_table$size) & is.na(font_table$based_on)] <- default_size
font_table$font[is.na(font_table$font)] <- default_font
font_table$based_on[is.na(font_table$based_on)] <- "default"

Now we have:

font_table
#>                      name             based_on            font size
#> 1                  Normal              default      minorHAnsi   12
#> 2               heading 2               Normal      minorHAnsi   13
#> 3  Default Paragraph Font              default      minorHAnsi   12
#> 4            Normal Table              default      minorHAnsi   12
#> 5                 No List              default      minorHAnsi   12
#> 6              Table Grid          TableNormal      minorHAnsi <NA>
#> 7          List Paragraph               Normal      minorHAnsi <NA>
#> 8            Normal (Web)               Normal Times New Roman <NA>
#> 9            Balloon Text               Normal          Tahoma    8
#> 10      Balloon Text Char DefaultParagraphFont          Tahoma    8
#> 11         Heading 2 Char DefaultParagraphFont      minorHAnsi   13

Upvotes: 3

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