Re: [Docutils-users] [LaTeX/HTML] Custom roles and formatting

[David G. <go...@py...>]

[David Abrahams]
 > I have text in my documents naming a special kind of component; that
 > text needs to be formatted sans-serif.  Seems to me that I should
 > make a curstom "special-component" interpreted text role.  IIUC, I
 > can give it an appropriate :class: option and, for HTML, set that
 > class' formatting in the CSS (right?)

Yes, correct.

 > What about LaTeX?  Is there any way to put something in the
 > stylesheet that will govern the formatting of a particular role?

I don't think there is, currently.  It would be great if somebody
added that functionality.  I don't know enough about LaTeX to know how
that could be done, or even *if* it could be done.

-- 
David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>