On 16/02/12 10:21, Lex Trotman wrote:
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As I understand it (and I'm not 100% sure I do), ODF outputs can be styled
using a .styles file (for generating .fodt files using asciidoc) or an
.odt/.ott file (for generating .odt files using a2x).
1. The default asciidoc.odt.styles file is in the from the odt plugin
directory.
2. *.styles "theme" files are installed from theme plugin directories.
3. An odt/ott template document which is specified explicitly with the
a2x-backend.py --base_doc=path command option.
Hi Stuart,
That would be my understanding too.
@Lex: would --template be more descriptive option name than --base_doc ?
I won't claim base_doc is a good name :)
But in LO OO terms "template" is a document including content, and in
this case we are definitly not using the content, we are only using
the styles, so maybe style_doc or something similar. Just so it is
not confusing with .styles styling :)
Thanks for the clarification, in any case though would prefer (if for nothing
else but consistency) to use hyphens instead of underscores in option names e.g.
--style-doc
Cheers, Stuart
My guess is that very few users will want to deal with .fodt files directly,
preferring .odt files instead i.e. a2x will be used in preference to
asciidoc.
Taking up Lex's point, I think the vast majority of users would want to
style with ott templates and not .styles files. The ability to style using
interactively generated ott files was the raison d'être for an ODF backend
in the first place.
So why complicate things with .styles themes plugins? Instead ship any
built-in .styles files with the odt plugin and make an asciidoc '-a
odf-styles=path' attribute available for those users who want to use their
own .styles files.
Simple is good.
Cheers
Lex
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