For those who can in late. . .
Where do we download Sass?
Is it part of haml, or it's own plugin?
-Larry
On 2/5/07, Nathan Weizenbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> A few days ago, I mentioned that not everyone liked the Sass' CSS output
> style. I said we were thinking about giving the users an option to
> choose between several different output styles. Well, guess what? It's
> implemented! You can now choose between three styles of output by
> setting options in environment.rb. There would be more options, but I
> only know of three distinct CSS styles... if anyone has more they'd like
> to see, let me know (or better yet, submit a patch!).
>
> The three styles are "compact", "expanded", and "nested".
>
> Compact is the style you're used to seeing Sass output, although it's no
> longer the default. Each CSS rule takes up only one line, with every
> attribute defined on that line. Nested rules are placed next to each
> other with no newline, while groups of rules have newlines between them.
> For instance,
>
> #main { color: #fff; background-color: #000; }
> #main p { width: 10em; }
>
> .huge { font-size: 10em; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; }
>
> Expanded is the typical human-made CSS style, with each attribute and
> rule taking up one line. Attributes are indented within the rules. Like
> compact, nested groups of rules aren't separated by newlines, which
> other groups are. For example:
>
> #main {
> color: #fff;
> background-color: #000;
> }
> #main p {
> width: 10em;
> }
>
> .huge {
> font-size: 10em;
> font-weight: bold;
> text-decoration: underline;
> }
>
> The final style, nested, is one you probably haven't seen before, but
> one that's very cool. It emphasizes the nesting of rules in much the
> same way Sass does, which is why it's the new default. Like expanded,
> each attribute has its own line, but the indentation isn't constant.
> Each rule is indented based on how deeply it's nested. For example:
>
> #main {
> color: #fff;
> background-color: #000; }
> #main p {
> width: 10em; }
>
> .huge {
> font-size: 10em;
> font-weight: bold;
> text-decoration: underline; }
>
> Nested style is very useful when looking at large CSS files for the same
> reason Sass is useful for making them: it allows you to very easily
> grasp the structure of the file without actually reading anything.
>
> As wonderful as nested style, the new default, is, I'm sure some of you
> want to play around with the other styles (and there may even be a few
> who are more comfortable with expanded or compact style in the long
> run). The question, then, is how do you set the style? The answer is by
> adding one line to environment.rb:
>
> Sass::Plugin.options[:style] = :expanded
>
> You would, of course, replace ":expanded" with ":compact" if you wanted
> to use that.
>
> Got any suggestions for new styles? Please let us know! As usual, these
> features are only available in trunk. Enjoy!
>
> - Nathan
>
> >
>
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Best Regards,
-Larry
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