Inline Verbatim text isn't given a specific style in ODT output

[gareththered]

If I write `Pandoc` inline within a markdown input file, it displays with a different font as Pandoc which is fine. However, that seems to be done by simply changing the font to Courier New for an ODT output file.
The same input used to create a DOCX file attaches the Verbatim Char character style to the verbatim inline text, which I can control by adjusting this style in my custom-reference.docx file I add to the command line options.
Is there a way to get the ODT output to behave the same. That is, add a character style to inline verbatim text instead of simply changing the font? I could then control this style in a custom-reference.odt file.

[Warmduscher]

Also the font-size of verbatim is fixed to 10pt. This gives arkward results when used inside a header or if used inline inside text blocks using a different font-size.

[jgm]

Yes, the opendocument writer is currently fairly primitive. I didn't write it, and I don't understand the details of the format well enough to change it. But it would be nice for someone to take this on, replacing all the auto-generated styles with real styles.

[jtojnar]

Verified this still happens with pandoc 3.7.0.2. If I create a document as follows:

$ pandoc -f markdown -o source-test-pandoc.odt
# Test `foo`

Hello `world`

it will contain:

content.xml

<text:h text:style-name="Heading_20_1" text:outline-level="1">
  <text:bookmark-start text:name="test-foo" />Test
  <text:span text:style-name="Source_Text">foo</text:span>
  <text:bookmark-end text:name="test-foo" />
</text:h>
<text:p text:style-name="First_20_paragraph">Hello
  <text:span text:style-name="Source_Text">world</text:span>
</text:p>

styles.xml

<style:style style:family="text" style:name="Source_Text">
      <style:text-properties style:font-name="Courier New" style:font-name-asian="Courier New" style:font-name-complex="Courier New" style:font-size-asian="10pt" style:font-size-complex="10pt" fo:font-size="10pt" fo:language="zxx" />
</style:style>

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Creating a document in LibreOffice Writer and using the built-in Source Text character style will produce:

content.xml

<text:h text:style-name="Heading_20_1" text:outline-level="1">Test
	<text:span text:style-name="Source_20_Text">
		<text:span text:style-name="T1">foo</text:span>
	</text:span>
</text:h>
<text:p text:style-name="P1">Hello
	<text:span text:style-name="Source_20_Text">world</text:span>
</text:p>

styles.xml

<style:style style:name="Source_20_Text" style:display-name="Source Text" style:family="text">
	<style:text-properties style:font-name="Liberation Mono" fo:font-family="&apos;Liberation Mono&apos;" style:font-family-generic="modern" style:font-pitch="fixed" style:font-name-asian="Liberation Mono" style:font-family-asian="&apos;Liberation Mono&apos;" style:font-family-generic-asian="modern" style:font-pitch-asian="fixed" style:font-name-complex="Liberation Mono" style:font-family-complex="&apos;Liberation Mono&apos;" style:font-family-generic-complex="modern" style:font-pitch-complex="fixed"/>
</style:style>

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So actually, there is a style (introduced in 13bc573) but not one recognised by LibreOffice UI.

Corresponding reader issue: #4841

Edit: I started implementing both of these.