From: Guenter M. <mi...@us...> - 2008-11-02 23:47:33
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Red Wraith <red...@gm...> schrieb: > David Goodger wrote: > It would be very nice if reStructuredText featured an extra standard > element for empty lines. Do you really need both, standard transitions and "empty lines"? (Are these mixed in any of the examples?) > Or maybe different *standard* types of transitions (simple empty line, > horizontal dash, etc.), so one can use empty lines and everybody which > converts the RST source file sees empty lines by default and not > horizontal dashs for example. The style of a transition is a layout feature, so it is not coded in the rst source but the style sheet. As you cannot specify the style sheet in the source, someone translating it with the default settings will see the default transition. You can, however, configure docutils in a way that all transitions will by default be styled as vertical space (do not call it empty lines -- the browser is not a typewriter) with a custom style-sheet specified in ~/.docutils. > At the moment, if you use "-----------" one can't specify a type. You can:: Hallo Welt .. class:: vspace ------ but this is only needed if you indeed plan to use both, standard and vspace transition in one document. > A "-----------" becomes a <hr> in HTML and you can't modify it with a > CSS file to be shown as an empty line (as far as I know). You can make the <hr> invisible with CSS2. However, you cannot (currently) style a transition in LaTeX, as the latex2e writer writes:: \hspace*{\fill}\hrulefill\hspace*{\fill} Günter |