DOCX Creator

Thin incremental layer over minimax-skills:minimax-docx. Not a document engine.

Read this first. The OpenXML SDK capability lives in minimax-docx. This skill contains zero engine code. What it contains is the part that took a full debugging session to learn: where that engine's CLI stops being usable, how to drive its SDK correctly for Chinese formal documents, and how to verify the output so you don't ship a file that looks fine to you and broken in Word.

Division of labor

Layer	Owner	What lives there
OpenXML SDK (DocumentFormat.OpenXml), WordprocessingDocument API, XSD validator, style templates, OpenXML encyclopedia	minimax-skills:minimax-docx	Engine + reference docs. Never duplicated here.
Where the CLI's expressiveness ceiling is, and when to abandon it for C#	this skill	ISSUE-001, ISSUE-002
A verified markdown-to-docx generator for Chinese formal documents	this skill	scripts/Program.cs
Chinese formal-document typography rules that OpenXML lets you get wrong	this skill	Hard rules below + ISSUE-004…007
Real end-to-end visual verification chain	this skill	references/verification_protocol.md

Locate the engine at the marketplace install path, typically ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/minimax-skills/skills/minimax-docx/.

Go read minimax-docx directly for anything structural this skill does not cover — images, track changes, comments, TOC, multi-section layouts, template application. Its minimax-docx/references/ folder (cjk_typography.md, openxml_element_order.md, openxml_units.md, troubleshooting.md) and its Samples/*.cs are the authority for SDK patterns. Do not reinvent them here.

Routing: which path for this document?

Situation	Path
Chinese contract / agreement / 公文 / any doc with 甲乙方 info blocks, numbered clauses, signature block, tables	C# OpenXML via scripts/Program.cs (this skill)
Plain prose, headings and paragraphs only, no bold / lists / tables	minimax-docx CLI create --content-json is enough
Fill or edit an existing .docx	minimax-docx pipeline B (edit-content) — this skill has nothing to add
Match an existing .docx's formatting	minimax-docx pipeline C (apply-template)
Output should be a PDF, not Word	daymade-docs:pdf-creator — wrong skill, stop here

Rule of thumb: the CLI's --content-json understands exactly three block types (heading, paragraph, pagebreak). Bold, lists, tables, borders, footers, fonts, alignment — none of it is expressible. A Chinese contract needs all of them. See ISSUE-001.

Quick start

The generator reads markdown and writes a formatted .docx. Copy it next to your document so build artifacts stay out of the skill directory:

# 1. Stage the generator beside your markdown
mkdir -p _docxgen && cp <skill-dir>/scripts/Program.cs <skill-dir>/scripts/mmdocx-gen.csproj \
   <skill-dir>/scripts/.gitignore _docxgen/

# 2. Generate (first run restores DocumentFormat.OpenXml + Markdig, ~20s)
dotnet run --project _docxgen -- your-doc.md your-doc.docx

# 3. Structural validation via the engine's XSD validator (note the roll-forward env — ISSUE-003)
DOTNET_ROLL_FORWARD=Major dotnet run \
  --project ~/.claude/plugins/marketplaces/minimax-skills/skills/minimax-docx/scripts/dotnet/MiniMaxAIDocx.Cli \
  -- validate --input your-doc.docx

# 4. MANDATORY visual verification — never skip, never substitute qlmanage
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf --outdir /tmp/docxcheck your-doc.docx
pdftoppm -png -r 100 /tmp/docxcheck/your-doc.pdf /tmp/docxcheck/page
# then Read every /tmp/docxcheck/page-NN.png

Full command details and troubleshooting: scripts/README.md. Full verification steps and pass/fail criteria: references/verification_protocol.md.

Hard rules (violating these means rework)

1. Alignment is layered — this is the expensive one

Never justify the whole document. Three layers, three alignments:

Content	Alignment	Why
Document title (H1)	Center	Convention
Clause headings (H2+)	Left	Convention
Info blocks and signature blocks — 甲方/乙方/统一社会信用代码/法定代表人/日期, i.e. any paragraph whose lines are joined by markdown soft or hard line breaks	Left	Justification stretches every line except the paragraph's last. A multi-line info block is one paragraph, so all but its final line get blown out into huge inter-character gaps.
Ordinary body prose	Justified (Both)	Clean right edge

The rule is machine-checkable, so do not eyeball it: if the markdown paragraph's inline tree contains a LineBreakInline, left-align that paragraph; otherwise justify it. Implemented at scripts/Program.cs lines 144-147, with the break detection at lines 59-64. Full write-up: ISSUE-004.

2. Every list restarts at 1

Each markdown list must get its own NumId plus a LevelOverride carrying StartOverrideNumberingValue = 1. Reuse one NumId across clauses and clause 3's list silently continues from 4. Implemented at scripts/Program.cs lines 148-162 and 183-197. Two SDK traps come with it (wrong class name, wrong element order) — ISSUE-005, ISSUE-006.

3. CJK fonts need both slots

A run must set RunFonts { Ascii, HighAnsi, EastAsia }. Setting only the Latin slots leaves Chinese characters to Word's fallback, and the document renders in whatever the reader's machine picks. Shipped defaults: Latin Times New Roman; East Asian 宋体 for body, 黑体 for headings. Sizes are OpenXML half-points — body 24 (12pt), H1 36 (18pt), clause heading 28 (14pt). ISSUE-007.

4. Page and table basics

A4 is 11906 × 16838 twips with 1440 twip margins; page number goes in a centered footer PAGE field. Tables need all six borders (top/bottom/left/right/insideH/insideV) — set fewer and cells look unruled in print. Implemented at scripts/Program.cs lines 93-125 and 175-177.

Verification is not optional

Banned: qlmanage thumbnails as visual proof. macOS Quick Look renders with a different engine than Word and will happily show a clean-looking page for a document whose info blocks are stretched apart. A document was declared "verified perfect" on qlmanage evidence and opened broken in Word — that is the origin of this rule. ISSUE-008.

Required chain: generate → XSD validate → soffice --headless --convert-to pdf → pdftoppm -png → Read every page image → check the five failure modes (info blocks not stretched / each list restarting at 1 / table borders present / signature block intact / no orphaned pagination). Details, prerequisites and the "what counts as failure" list: references/verification_protocol.md.

Before overwriting a delivered .docx, check for a sibling ~$<name>.docx — that is Word's owner lock, meaning the recipient has the old version open. Overwriting works, but they will keep seeing the stale document until they close and reopen it. Tell them. ISSUE-011.

Customizing

scripts/Program.cs is ~215 lines of straightforward OpenXML. Edit it directly for fonts, sizes, spacing, borders, or new block types — that is the intended workflow. Before adding a structural feature (images, TOC, headers, track changes), read the corresponding Samples/*.cs in minimax-docx first; those patterns are SDK-version-verified and will save you a compile-error loop.

References

• references/known_issues.md — ISSUE-001…011: symptom / root cause / fix / verification for every trap hit while building this pipeline. Read before debugging anything.
• references/verification_protocol.md — the full end-to-end verification chain, its prerequisites, its pass criteria, and the substitutions that are forbidden.
• scripts/README.md — how to run the generator, what markdown it supports, environment requirements.