My DOCX converter trusted Word's styles, and Word betrayed it completely
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I built a DOCX-to-Markdown converter assuming heading styles were reliable. Heading 1 means a section title. Heading 2 means a subsection. Word agrees — until a human opens the file and does something creative. The breaking case: a 40-page contract where the author "formatted" headings by selecting…
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- 2026-10-18 11:03 · DEV Community — AI
My DOCX converter trusted Word's styles, and Word betrayed it completely