I have no clue in LaTeX package developing but I have a dream! Consider following two files:
% A LaTeX file
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style.css]{css}
\begin{document}
\begin{abstract}
This is abstract!
\end{abstract}
This is \cls{code}{foo} and that is \cls{code}{bar}.
\end{document}
A simple css.file:
/*style.css*/
abstract{
color:red;
}
.code{
background:blue;
}
I want the package map css rules to its latex counterparts before rendering. In this example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{color}
\begin{document}
{\color{red}
\begin{abstract}
This is abstract!
\end{abstract}
}
This is \colorbox{blue}{foo} and that is \colorbox{blue}{bar}.
\end{document}
I want to know how can I develop a simple package that for beginning provide ability to use color/font-family/font-weight css rules in LaTeX. In next stage I want to add it id/class addressing. Perhaps we can put the source in GitHub and the community could extend it.
Notice that I want to use only CSS syntax as syntax-suger for LaTeX styling.
As an answer please at least provide a minimum solution to set the color of abstract using provided example. Thanks all.
related:
CSS based LaTeX formatting?
Best Answer
TeX is an extremely powerful typesetting system. While TeX can be used to make toast or control a Mars rover writing complex programs in TeX/LaTeX is generally more difficult than languages like C, Perl, and Python. In order to parse your example CSS
you would likely have to either make
a
and.
active or process it with regular expressions. As @JosephWright told explained to me in a comment to this answerI would suggest instead of doing the conversion directly in TeX you use Perl (or a programming language of your choice) to write a program like
css2sty
which would use a powerful regular expression engine to do the conversion.