paragraph styles and character styles

[Moataz Omar <mo...@i12.com>]

Dear All,
 
What should I do to give the text a paragraph style name or a character
style name, I mean that I give the text a style name.
 
Kind regards
Moataz 
 
 

Re: paragraph styles and character styles

[Jeremias Maerki <de...@greenmail.ch>]

Do I get you right that you seek something like the styles available in
Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer? There is no direct equivalent to
this in XSL-FO. What you can do, though, if you're working with XSLT is
working with xsl:attribute-set (a feature of XSLT), for example.

Other than that you only have the clever cascading of style attributes.
Most style attributes are inherited from parent elements if they aren't
specified. Here's a simple example:

[..]
<fo:block font-family="MyFont" font-size="10pt">
  <fo:block font-weight="bold" font-size="12pt">MyTitle</fo:block>
  <fo:block>Some paragraph</fo:block>
  <fo:block>Some paragraph</fo:block>
  <fo:block>Some paragraph</fo:block>
  <fo:block font-weight="bold" font-size="12pt">MyTitle</fo:block>
  <fo:block>Some <fo:inline font-style="italic">paragraph<fo:inline></fo:block>
</fo:block>
[..]

A third posibility may be to have a two stage XSLT process where you
define an intermediate XML format that makes use of style names. You
then have to create an XSL stylesheet that can translate those styles to
their XSL-FO commands.

In the end there are lots of possibilities to do what you want, just
maybe not the easy one you seek.

I hope that helps.

On 23.02.2003 20:19:36 Moataz Omar wrote:
> What should I do to give the text a paragraph style name or a character
> style name, I mean that I give the text a style name.



Jeremias Maerki


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