Selecting CSS style for paragraph

Selecting CSS style for paragraph

[Mats Holmberg]

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Hi all,

I am trying to learn how to use pandoc and markdown for book writing 
(creating epubs and html books). Overall it works splendidly, but I have a 
problem that I don't know how
to solve: hinting to pandoc which CSS style to use for my paragraph.
.
I know that i can simply wrap my text in a html block e.g.  <p 
class="no-indent">Text</p>.
But then I can't use markdown in the html block. Some other markdown 
parsers I have
tested (MarkDiv, for example) have a syntax that goes something like this 
instead:
{.no-indent}Text, which seems to work perfectly. I have tried the syntax 
::::{.no-indent} in pandoc, but that generates a <div> around the whole 
thing which is not what i want.

I have tried to go through all the extensions that are available in pandoc, 
but so far haven't found anything that works.

I guess this might be kind of a noob question, but I have really tried to 
find a solution
and failed. Is this a real problem, or am I overlooking something simple? 
Some 
combination of pandoc extensions or something like that? Any help will be 
immensely 
appreciated!

Kind regards,
Mats

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Re: Selecting CSS style for paragraph

[Bastien DUMONT]

Pandoc doesn't have classes and attributes for all elements. To set attributes and classes on a paragraph, you must wrap it in a div as you discovered. Then, either you change your CSS file to apply the required formatting to all paragraphs inside a div of a given class, or you can post-process the HTML file to pass the classes and the attributes on the children paragraphs.

Le Saturday 17 June 2023 à 01:47:12PM, Mats Holmberg a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to learn how to use pandoc and markdown for book writing (creating
> epubs and html books). Overall it works splendidly, but I have a problem that I
> don't know how
> to solve: hinting to pandoc which CSS style to use for my paragraph.
> .
> I know that i can simply wrap my text in a html block e.g.  <p class=
> "no-indent">Text</p>.
> But then I can't use markdown in the html block. Some other markdown parsers I
> have
> tested (MarkDiv, for example) have a syntax that goes something like this
> instead:
> {.no-indent}Text, which seems to work perfectly. I have tried the syntax ::::
> {.no-indent} in pandoc, but that generates a <div> around the whole thing which
> is not what i want.
> 
> I have tried to go through all the extensions that are available in pandoc, but
> so far haven't found anything that works.
> 
> I guess this might be kind of a noob question, but I have really tried to find
> a solution
> and failed. Is this a real problem, or am I overlooking something simple? Some 
> combination of pandoc extensions or something like that? Any help will be
> immensely 
> appreciated!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Mats
> 
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Re: Selecting CSS style for paragraph

[Mats Holmberg]

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Oh, I see. Well, in that case I guess I'll just have to stick with html 
blocks for the parts of the text that that has to be separately styled, 
it's not all that often. Or look for another tool. But I really like 
pandoc, so I think I'll stick around. Would be interesting to know why the 
design choice was made to not allow attributes for all elements, though. 
Seems to me that it would be a very useful feature.

Thanks a lot for the information, now I can finally stop trying to figure 
this out.

Kind regards,
Mats
On Sunday, June 18, 2023 at 12:04:49 AM UTC+2 Bastien DUMONT wrote:

> Pandoc doesn't have classes and attributes for all elements. To set 
> attributes and classes on a paragraph, you must wrap it in a div as you 
> discovered. Then, either you change your CSS file to apply the required 
> formatting to all paragraphs inside a div of a given class, or you can 
> post-process the HTML file to pass the classes and the attributes on the 
> children paragraphs.
>
> Le Saturday 17 June 2023 à 01:47:12PM, Mats Holmberg a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I am trying to learn how to use pandoc and markdown for book writing 
> (creating
> > epubs and html books). Overall it works splendidly, but I have a problem 
> that I
> > don't know how
> > to solve: hinting to pandoc which CSS style to use for my paragraph.
> > .
> > I know that i can simply wrap my text in a html block e.g.  <p class=
> > "no-indent">Text</p>.
> > But then I can't use markdown in the html block. Some other markdown 
> parsers I
> > have
> > tested (MarkDiv, for example) have a syntax that goes something like this
> > instead:
> > {.no-indent}Text, which seems to work perfectly. I have tried the syntax 
> ::::
> > {.no-indent} in pandoc, but that generates a <div> around the whole 
> thing which
> > is not what i want.
> > 
> > I have tried to go through all the extensions that are available in 
> pandoc, but
> > so far haven't found anything that works.
> > 
> > I guess this might be kind of a noob question, but I have really tried 
> to find
> > a solution
> > and failed. Is this a real problem, or am I overlooking something 
> simple? Some 
> > combination of pandoc extensions or something like that? Any help will be
> > immensely 
> > appreciated!
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Mats
> > 
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> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/
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> > 
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> > 
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> > [2] 
> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/0102580d-3f9a-407d-b089-54a8b51ab6f3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer
>
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