Hello list,
I started a topic in Pandoc discussions (see
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/discussions/10208) about custom styles in
pandoc tables.
This is the framework:
- in Pandoc, some textual elements have a "custom-style" attribute,
whose value becomes the name of a paragraph or character style in DOCX,
ICML or ODT when exported to those formats
- e.g. when you have a Span with custom-style="myStyle" around some
inline text, you'll get a character style "myStyle" in those formats
- for paragraphs, it's a bit different: since they have no attributes in
Pandoc, you set the "custom-style" attribute of a surrounding Div
element, then all the paragraphs inside it will get that custom
paragraph style in DOCX, ICML or ODT
- for DOCX output you may set a "custom-style" attribute also in tables
Why not using that information about custom styles for ConTeXt output too?
I started from the last ones (tables), suggesting that a Table element
with a "custom-style" attribute set to "myStyle" could be output in
ConTeXt as:
\startxtable[myStyle]
(Currently, tables converted to ConTeXt by Pandoc start only with a
"\startxtable" line)
That's doable, because ConTeXt does not terminate with an error, when it
encounters a \startxtable[myStyle] not preceded by a \definextable[myStyle].
Then JGM, Pandoc's main author, replied that it would be weird having
custom styles for tables and not for spans or paragraphs in ConTeXt output.
Good point.
In ConTeXt, there are many ways to specify what in Word and LibreOffice
are "character" and "paragraph" styles.
For example, \definehighlight is suitable for character styles.
Badumont, in the pandoc discussion, suggested \definestartstop; good,
though you should be careful not to specify a custom style with the same
name of an existing environment (e.g. "narrower"); maybe a prefix like
"CS" could be a workaround, so that "myStyle" becomes "CSmyStyle", and
also "narrower" becomes a less dangerous "CSnarrower".
Also, in this case, Pandoc should prepend a \definestartstop[CSmyStyle]
before \startCSmyStyle, otherwise ConTeXt would terminate with an error
(I think this is doable in Pandoc code, anyways).
(BTW, the wiki says \definestartstop is "used to define block level
commands": does it mean it can't be suitable for spans of inline text in
a paragraph?)
Any ideas to specify paragraph and character styles?
Massi
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