style attribute in tagged text

[daustin777]

How do I create a style to be used in a paragraph, cell or column tags? The tag reference manual states that it is the name of the Paragraph Designer format. What is this and how do I use it?

[esmith]

I've always placed all my style info into the <p> tag (or alternate tag) via a rule per the Tag Reference Guide, although I have noticed that the guide mentions the use of styles (like CSS?) which I have never figured out how to implement...

[Dan Korn]

Named paragraph styles are exported from QuarkXPress and InDesign. They can also be modified using the DIF Control API in FusionPro Server jobs. This dictionary of paragraph styles is not directly accessible in FusionPro Desktop, except via <p> tags to invoke the styles as noted.

[daustin777]

Excellent! I've just tested it. It will definitely help us!

 

Thanks,

David

[mgalligar]

How do I do this today? I have Indesign CS5. there is no export styles feature. I am using FusionPro 8 and I need to format text in cells. The cell on the far left will be left justified - the one on the far right will be right justified - the rest will be center justified.

 

The top row will have different leading than the second row.

Can this be done?

Thanks

[mgalligar]

Is it possible to get a copy of a "generic" named text format style so I could just open it, modify & rename it?

[Dan Korn]

Hi mgalligar. I'll answer the second part of your question first, because, while named styles do indeed work, that's not what you need to accomplish what you're trying to do with the table.

I am using FusionPro 8 and I need to format text in cells. The cell on the far left will be left justified - the one on the far right will be right justified - the rest will be center justified.

This can all be done with the JavaScript table API. For example:

for (var r = 0; r < table.Rows.length; r++)
{
   table.Rows[r].Cells[0].HAlign = "Left";
   table.Rows[r].Cells[1].HAlign = "Center";
   table.Rows[r].Cells[table.Columns.length - 1].HAlign = "Right";
}

If you're building the <table> tags manually and not using the table API, then you can prefix each cell's content with a tag such as <p br=false quad=L>, <p br=false quad=C>, or <p br=false quad=R> to align the text in the cell.

The top row will have different leading than the second row.

Can this be done?

Sure. The table API doesn't directly handle this, but all you need to do is prefix the content in the first cell of each row with a tag to specify the leading, something like this:

table.Rows[0].Cells[0].Content = '<p br=false leading=200>' + table.Rows[0].Cells[0].Content;
table.Rows[1].Cells[0].Content = '<p br=false leading=auto>' + table.Rows[1].Cells[0].Content;

Okay, now to talk about named styles specifically:

How do I do this today? I have Indesign CS5. there is no export styles feature.

Every InDesign and QuarkXPress document has a dictionary of named paragraph styles. These are all exported to FusionPro, although they're not made available in the Text Editor dialog, so you can only invoke them via tags. If you export the InDesign document to FusionPro, and then export the Format (DIF) file, you will see all the named styles under the <parastyledict> section.

 

For instance, in the Frodo Travel tutorial, the DIF file contains several named paragraph styles, such as "Normal", "Party", and "besmart", which all come from the original QuarkXPress document (Tut01.qxd). Any of these can be accessed with a <p> tag like in a rule like this:

return '<p style="besmart">Here is some text';

However, you very rarely would need to do this. You can fully control every aspect of the text with tagging, without using named styles. For instance, you can specify <p br=false quad=R> to right-align text, or <f name="Times New Roman"> to change the font. Most of these tags work in tables as well. The Tags Reference Guide has all the information you need.