How do you add padding between paragraphs and bulleted items (and a few other styling questions)?

[lancejpollard]

Hi there, I am making a markdown to docx converter using your library yay :) https://github.com/lancejpollard/md2docx.js/blob/make/index.ts . See the simple doc at the bottom for the styles I applied from your documentation.

I have some questions about how to style some stuff.

1. How do you add padding/spacing between paragraphs?
2. How do you add padding before/after a whole list (but not list items or nested lists)?
3. How do you neatly indent any combination of nested numbered/bulleted lists so each list item is 16px (or equivalent) from the left, and nested ones are 16px further from the parent?
4. How do you do links? My ExternalLink usage doesn't seem to be working.
5. How do you customize the bullet on bulleted lists to be any unicode symbol or maybe even just an asterisk?

Basically I want like 16px of spacing between paragraphs and lists in a document, and to customize the spacing underneath and above headers based on their font size.

My document looks like this so far, but I would like it to look nicer.

Thanks for the help!

Cross-posted to StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77975860/how-to-change-styling-of-paragraphs-and-list-items-in-docx-for-javascript

[lancejpollard]

I got it working in the press-SPACE preview on Mac:

But when I open it up in Pages on Mac:

How to fix?

I'm using:

{
  level: 0,
  format: LevelFormat.BULLET,
  text: '•',
  alignment: AlignmentType.LEFT,
  style: {
    paragraph: {
      indent: {
        start: convertInchesToTwip(INDENT * 0),
      },
    },
  },
}

And then on Google Docs, sigh: