Stylesheets in maven

[Jose Gonzalez Gomez <jg...@opentechnet.com>]

    I'm generating docs for my projects, and have noticed a drawback in 
the current mechanism for stylesheet mangement. If you want to change 
some colors in your document you may specify some properties in your 
project.properties to change those colors. That's fine.

    Let's say you now want to change completely the appearance of the 
site, you may create your own maven.css that will be copied as is to the 
stylesheet directory. That's fine too.

    But I wanted to be able to change some properties and keep using 
maven.css while adding some more properties for hand generated 
documentation (requirements, analysis, those kind of docs). Maven 
doesn't let you do this. I have fixed just adding two lines to site.jsl:

        <j:set var="tigrisCss" value='"${relativePath}/style/tigris.css"'/>
        <j:set var="mavenCss" value='"${relativePath}/style/maven.css"'/>
        <j:set var="projectCss" 
value='"${relativePath}/style/project.css"'/>    <- line added
        <style type="text/css"><![CDATA[
          @import url(${tigrisCss});
          @import url(${mavenCss});
          @import 
url(${projectCss});                                            <- line added
        ]]></style>

    The idea is just having a project stylesheet if you want to keep 
using maven.css, but add something to the standard stylesheets for your 
own documents. Do you think this is a good idea? In that case, could it 
get to the next release?

    Regards
    Jose


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