From: Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Paragraph formatting (was: block with different formatting per line?)
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:43:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <B4A1542E-BEFA-43BF-90E8-868C4E6B3468@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5112AD35.9010405@meahan.net>
Am 06.02.2013 um 20:21 schrieb Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>:
> My #1 "Wish List" item for ConTeXt is /allowing/ "stylesheets" at the paragraph level. That would allow closer correspondence with what CSS/CSS3, Scribus, ODT, EPUB3 &al do and make it much easier to write transformation scripts whether XSLT, lua code, Perl code or whatever favorite tool one wishes to use.
>
> I envision something like (psuedo code):
>
> \setupstylesheet[myparagraphstyle]
> [font=AccanthisADF,
> fontsize=12pt,
> fontstyle=italic,
> alignment=justified,
> frame=no,
> color=blue,
> width=\textwidth,
> &c ....
> ]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startparagraph[style=mystylesheet]
> \input tufte
> \stopparagraph
>
> \input knuth
>
> \stoptext
>
> The output would have the tufte quote formatted according to my stylesheet and knuth in whatever the global style is.
>
> The style parameter in the start/stop paragraph would, of course, be /optional/ so existing documents would be unchanged from current behavior but allow the introduction of paragraph styles.
A few of these values can be set for certain paragraphs with the new \defineparagraph command.
Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-01 23:16 block with different formatting per line? Ingo Hohmann
2013-02-03 3:56 ` Rogers, Michael K
2013-02-04 15:16 ` Ingo Hohmann
2013-02-06 6:04 ` Ingo Hohmann
2013-02-06 13:29 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-02-06 15:00 ` Ingo Hohmann
2013-02-07 4:32 ` Rogers, Michael K
2013-02-06 19:21 ` Bill Meahan
2013-02-06 19:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2013-02-06 19:45 ` Aditya Mahajan
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