title: Changing the Pandoc monospace font size or style in DOCX output
body: <p>When using markdown code blocks the resulting monospace font size is too large in DOCX documents.</p>
  
  <p>I can adjust the font size of paragraphs by specifying a custom <em>template.docx</em> file, but for some reason the generated code blocks do not use a paragraph style, as opposed to most other generated output.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Make code blocks use a specific style so that I can override the style in the <em>template.docx</em></p></li>
  <li><p>Override the monospace font used in the DOCX representation of code blocks?</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Updated to clarify:
  I am using an external reference.docx based on a previously generated docx as described in the comments. By modifying the styles for heading1 etc I have reasonable control over the output. The problem is that generated monospace text does not use a named style, it is just "normal" with some changes. So I have no way to change it in the template unless I also change the size of all "normal" text.</p>