DOCX Creation, Editing, and Analysis

Quick Setup

bash "$SKILL_DIR/setup.sh"    # Interactive environment check + install

Overview

A .docx file is a ZIP archive containing XML files. This skill provides tools for creating, editing, reading, and reviewing Word documents.

Quick Route — Read This First

Step 1: Determine task type → load the corresponding route file Step 2: Determine business scene → load the corresponding scene file (if applicable) Step 3: Load references/design-system.md for cover recipes, palettes, and chart colors Step 4: Load references/common-rules.md for shared layout, font, and quality rules Step 5: Execute per route instructions Step 6: Run the post-generation checklist

⚠️ MANDATORY — Cover Recipe Enforcement (Step 3): When creating a document that needs a cover page, you MUST use one of the 7 validated cover recipes (R1–R7) from design-system.md. Free-form cover code is FORBIDDEN. The recipe provides the wrapper table, background, layout structure, border settings, and spacing — do not reinvent any of these.

Workflow: (1) Call selectCoverRecipe(docType, industry) to get recipe + palette → (2) Use the corresponding buildCoverRX() function code from design-system.md → (3) Pass your config (title, subtitle, metaLines, etc.) into the recipe builder. If you skip this and write cover code from scratch, the cover WILL have compatibility issues (blank pages in MS Office, missing borders, overflow, etc.).

Script Path Setup (MANDATORY before any script call)

All CLI tools live in scripts/ relative to this skill's directory. Before calling any script, resolve the absolute path once:

DOCX_SCRIPTS="<skill_directory>/scripts"   # ← parent directory of this SKILL.md

# Then all commands use $DOCX_SCRIPTS:
python3 "$DOCX_SCRIPTS/postcheck.py" output.docx
python3 "$DOCX_SCRIPTS/add_toc_placeholders.py" output.docx --auto

For Python imports (when generation code needs to import skill modules):

import sys, os
DOCX_SCRIPTS = os.path.join("<skill_directory>", "scripts")
if DOCX_SCRIPTS not in sys.path:
    sys.path.insert(0, DOCX_SCRIPTS)

⚠️ NEVER use bare python3 scripts/... — it only works if cwd happens to be the skill directory. Always use the absolute $DOCX_SCRIPTS path.

Task Router

Scene Router (Optional — load after route)

If no scene matches, use default design rules from references/design-system.md and references/common-rules.md.

Formatting Standards (Always Apply)

→ See references/common-rules.md for full font profiles, spacing, indent, and layout rules.

Key rules (quick reference):

• Line spacing: 1.3x (line: 312) — MANDATORY. Exceptions: resume 1.15x, official doc 28pt fixed, copywriting 400, contract 1.5x
• CJK body: Justified + 2-char indent (firstLine: 480 SimSun / 420 YaHei)
• Tables: margins set, ShadingType.CLEAR, tableHeader: true, cantSplit: true, title keepNext: true
• Images: type parameter required, preserve aspect ratio via image-size, PageBreak inside Paragraph
• Full-page Table row: rule: "exact" with 1200 twips safety margin

Unit Quick Reference

For Chinese font size table and common margins, see references/common-rules.md.

Post-Generation — Two-Layer Verification

Layer 1: Manual Checklist (self-check during generation)

Basic Format

• Line spacing is 1.3x (line: 312) or scene-specific override
• CJK body has 2-char indent (firstLine: 480 or 420)
• Tables have margins set
• Images preserve aspect ratio via image-size — NEVER hardcode both width and height
• PageBreak inside Paragraph
• ShadingType uses CLEAR
• Each numbered list uses unique reference
• ⚠️ CRITICAL — Quotation marks in JS strings properly escaped. Chinese curly quotes ("" '') MUST use Unicode escapes (\u201c \u201d \u2018 \u2019); straight quotes (" ') use \" \' or alternate delimiters. This is the #1 most common code generation bug. Chinese text frequently contains "" for emphasis or proper nouns (e.g., "双11", "前低后高", "618") — every occurrence MUST be escaped. Failure to escape produces JS syntax errors that silently break document generation.
• ImageRun includes type parameter
• Header/footer present (unless scene says otherwise)

Heading Styles

• All body chapter headings use heading: HeadingLevel.HEADING_X (never simulate with bold + large font)
• Cover title may skip Heading style (not in TOC), but body headings MUST use Heading style

Page Break & Blank Page Prevention

• Cover/content in separate sections
• Three rules to prevent blank pages:
  • ① When using section(NEXT_PAGE), previous section must NOT end with PageBreak (double break = blank page)
  • ② PageBreak paragraph SHOULD contain visible text — exception: section-ending empty para + PageBreak is allowed (normal section separator, e.g., after cover page)
  • ③ No more than 3 consecutive empty paragraphs
• Full-page Table row height uses rule: "exact" (never "atLeast" for tall tables)
• No unwanted blank pages (check each section ending)

TOC

→ See references/toc.md for the complete TOC reference and checklist.

• If TOC title exists → TableOfContents element must be present
• ⚠️ MANDATORY PageBreak after TableOfContents — a Paragraph containing PageBreak MUST immediately follow the TableOfContents element; without it, TOC and body content will render on the same page. This is the #1 TOC formatting failure — never omit it
• add_toc_placeholders.py --auto runs after generation; exit code = 0
• TOC MUST be in its own section — body section sets page: { pageNumbers: { start: 1, formatType: NumberFormat.DECIMAL } } so page numbers start from the first body page, not from the TOC pages
• Page number API nesting — pageNumbers MUST be inside page: {}, NOT at properties top level (see toc.md § Page Number API)
• 3-section page numbering — Cover (no page#) → Front matter (Roman i,ii,iii, start=1) → Body (Arabic 1,2,3, start=1)
• Post-process footers — Roman section footer instrText must contain PAGE \* ROMAN \* MERGEFORMAT; Arabic section PAGE \* arabic \* MERGEFORMAT (WPS ignores pgNumType fmt). ⚠️ NEVER use \* decimal in instrText — decimal is a docx-js API enum value (NumberFormat.DECIMAL), NOT a valid Word field format switch; using it causes page numbers to render as "1decimal", "2decimal". The correct Word field switch for Arabic numerals is \* arabic.
• Remove empty pgNumType — Post-process to strip <w:pgNumType/> from cover section (docx-js emits empty element that confuses WPS)

Table Cross-Page

• Header rows: tableHeader: true
• All rows: cantSplit: true
• Title paragraph: keepNext: true

Cover

• Cover MUST use a validated recipe (R1–R7) from design-system.md — free-form cover code is forbidden
• Cover recipe matches document type (per selectCoverRecipe() in design-system.md)
• Cover uses the 16838 outer wrapper table with allNoBorders (all recipes provide this)
• Cover title uses calcTitleLayout() — never hardcoded font size above 40pt
• Cover spacing uses calcCoverSpacing() — never hardcoded large spacing values
• Cover content does not overflow (total height ≤ 15638 twips, Table uses rule: "exact")
• Every TextRun on dark/colored background has explicit color set (Rule 9 — never rely on default black)
• Cover section has no trailing PageBreak or empty paragraphs
• Title lines split at semantic boundaries (no mid-word breaks, no single-char orphan lines)
• No text-character decorative lines (───, ━━━) — use paragraph borders only

Layer 2: Automated Post-Check Script

python3 "$DOCX_SCRIPTS/postcheck.py" output.docx

Automatically checks 14 business rules: blank pages, cover overflow (font size/spacing/trailing content), line spacing consistency, table margins, table cross-page control (cantSplit/tblHeader), image overflow, image aspect ratio distortion, font fallback, CJK indent, heading hierarchy, ShadingType misuse, TOC quality, document cleanliness (placeholder text/Markdown/HTML residuals), report content quality (abstract presence/heading specificity/vague conclusion detection).

⚠️ After generating any document, MUST run postcheck.py and fix all ❌ errors.

Math Formulas

Formula input uses LaTeX syntax, internally converted to docx-js Math objects.

• Basic formulas (fractions, sub/superscript, roots, summation) → docx-js Math components
• Complex formulas (3+ nesting, matrices, piecewise functions) → matplotlib PNG fallback

See references/math-formulas.md.

Charts

Default: matplotlib template library generates PNG for embedding.

6 ready-to-use templates: bar, line, pie, box, radar, heatmap. Colors auto-derived from document palette.accent for style consistency. Default palette: Morandi low-saturation (see design-system.md).

See references/chart-templates.md.

Dependencies

• pandoc: Text extraction
• docx: bun add docx or npm install docx (creating)
• LibreOffice: PDF conversion, .doc support
• Poppler: PDF to image (pdftoppm)
• defusedxml: Secure XML parsing
• python-docx: Simple comment operations