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Allow to use macros inside stylesheets #15

Open dagwieers opened 12 years ago

dagwieers commented 12 years ago

The {numbered} macro specifies whether Chapters and Sections need to be numbered. In ODF the numbering is part of the style for each section-level, and thus if we want to influence the numbering we need to influence the stylesheet (contrary to how it works for XHTML).

Now, it is possible to eg. create 2 stylesheets, one for numbered and one for unnumbered, but that would lead to a lot of stylesheet duplication. And if another macro is required to influence the stylesheet (eg. for icons support), we need to duplicate it once again (having 4 different stylesheets for each combination). So that is not really an option.

Processing the stylesheet and allowing macros in stylesheets, might be required to make this manageable.

elextr commented 12 years ago

On 11 October 2011 19:30, Dag Wieërs reply@reply.github.com wrote:

The {numbered} macro specifies whether Chapters and Sections need to be numbered. In ODF the numbering is part of the style for each section-level, and thus if we want to influence the numbering we need to influence the stylesheet (contrary to how it works for XHTML).

Now, it is possible to eg. create 2 stylesheets, one for numbered and one for unnumbered, but that would lead to a lot of stylesheet duplication. And if another macro is required to influence the stylesheet (eg. for icons support), we need to duplicate it once again (having 4 different stylesheets for each combination). So that is not really an option.

Well, yes there is a combinatorial increase, but this is just s selection process, easy to understand and easy (if tedious) to maintain.

Processing the stylesheet and allowing macros in stylesheets, might be required to make this manageable.

This has the issue that the stylesheets are going to have the combinatorial increase inside them, really messy and hard to maintain

I am also not sure that either is really worth the cost, just say setting numbered doesn't work for odf. Remember also that any presentational info like this in the asciidoc will be overridden by the styles applied from the ODF template (and being able to apply gui generated templates was the point of the odf backend :)

Cheers Lex

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