styles: Style Definitions and Assignments

In odfWeave: Sweave processing of Open Document Format (ODF) files

Description

Utility functions for declaring and setting styles

Usage

getStyles()
setStyles(style)

getStyleDefs()
setStyleDefs(def)

getImageDefs()
setImageDefs(def, verbose = TRUE)

Arguments

style	a list of style assignments
def	a list of style definitions
verbose	a logical: should warnings be printed?

Details

There are two main components to specifying output formats: style definitions and style assignments. The definition has the specific components (such as a table cell) and their format values (e.g. boxed with solid black lines). The function getStyleDefs can fetch the pre-existing styles in the package. These can be modified and new definitions can be added. The function setStyledefs “registers” the style changes with the package. When odfWeave is called, these definitions are written to the style sections of the XML files. See the example below.

There is a second mechanism to assign styles to specific output elements. The functions getStyles and setStyles can be used to tell odfWeave which style definition to use for a particular output.

For example, the input and output elements control how R code and command–line output look. To change either of these, an existing definition can be assigned to these entries and reset using setStyles(currentStyles). Unlike the style definitions, the style assignments can be modified throughout the R code.

For graphics, getImageDefs and setImageDefs can be used to specifiy the type of plot device and it's arguments. getImageDefs will return a list with elements

type

a character string for the image type (this is also used to set the file extension). Possible values are "png", "jpeg", "bmp", or "eps" (OpenOffice does not accept pdf or svg graphics)

device

a character string for the device that should be used to generate the graphics. Some systems may not have png or jpeg devices setup, so capabilities is used to make that determination by default

plotHeight

the height for the image file. For "png", "bmp" and "jpeg" devices, this is in pixels, but for others it is in inches

plotWidth

similar to plotHeight

dispWidth

the height of the image, in inches, as shown in OpenOffice

dispWidth

similar to dispHeight

Since these functions can be called from within code chunks, graphical parameters can be changes during the Sweave process.

Value

The get functions return named lists.

Author(s)

Max Kuhn

Examples

currentStyleDefs <- getStyleDefs()
currentStyleDefs$ArialNormal$fontSize <- "10pt"
setStyleDefs(currentStyleDefs)

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