haha seems there’s some option to use “.sty” files for styling in LaTeX! :) * https://tug.org/pracjourn/2005-3/asknelly/nelly-sty-&-cls.pdf * https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/91167/why-use-sty-files
What I understand so far, is that we would redefine commands in the .sty file and then use those commands in the generated tex output. For example instead of directly outputing "\begin{tabular}{l|ll}” for a table, we would create own own and output "\begin{xwiki}{l|ll}”, with the definition of it in a .sty file, with some default styles applied. This would then allow modifying just the .sty file to control the output. Seems great and exactly what I need. Still digging. Also this page explains nicely the differences between LaTeX and PDF: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.text.tex/oTaAExhAZE4/4zbqNDYUwg8J Thanks -Vincent > On 15 Feb 2018, at 07:25, Vincent Massol <vinc...@massol.net> wrote: > > Hi Paul, > >> On 14 Feb 2018, at 23:14, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> wrote: >> >> Hello Vincent, >> >> having some experience with TeX I would implement CSS with >> macro-definitions… Every element start would be a call to a macro that would >> check for rules that would apply to its element, including passing >> parameters of their ancestry. > > Could you give an example of what you mean by macro-definitions? Is this > something that exist in TeX? > >> However, I guess that your solution seems probably more ad hoc and more >> practical. >> >> Is there any reason that you don’t use the XSL-FO renderer that use LaTeX? I >> thought there were several of them. > > Do you have a pointer? As I said in my original mail I tried to search for an > XHTML to LaTeX converter/XSLT but couldn’t. If you know of one, I’ll gladly > have a look. > > Thanks a lot! > -Vincent > >> >> paul >> >> On 14 Feb 2018, at 21:01, Vincent Massol wrote: >> >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> I’m currently working on improving our TeX renderer (which is really a POC >>> ATM), in an effort to see if it could be used to generate nice PDF exports >>> (you generate LaTeX and then you convert to PDF). >>> >>> The main issue is that LaTeX doesn’t have any technology for applying style >>> to it (like CSS has for HTML). In addition I wasn’t able to find any good >>> HTML+CSS to TeX converter (as we have for PDFs with XSLT+FOP). >>> >>> So right now my idea is to implement some default behavior in the Tex >>> Renderer (that could be configured globally in xwiki.properties and/or in >>> the Admin UI) and give the ability to override specifically in the content. >>> >>> For example, imagine that you need to decide how to position table column >>> content (left, centered, right) or whether the rows and/or columns of your >>> table have vertical and horizontal lines (or other configs, autowrap, etc). >>> >>> The idea is that the Tex Renderer would support some custom tex-specific >>> parameters. For example: >>> >>> (% tex-table-spec=“c | c | c" tex-table-floating="true" >>> tex-table-caption="caption" %) >>> |=A|=B >>> (% tex-table-row-ending="\hline" %)|a|b >>> >>> (by default the table spec would be left aligned with vertical lines, and >>> rows would be separated by horizontal lines). >>> >>> If you have some comments or ideas, please let me know. >>> >>> Inventing a CSS-like mechanism would just be too hard to implement IMO. >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >>> PS: If you want to see table options in LaTeX, see >>> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Tables >