[Sweetpea]

I've been playing with my HTML and LaTeX templates a bit. My application to transform the HTML to LaTeX was getting way too complicated (to reflect all classes I had defined in my CSS...). I decided to see if I could simplify things.

First, if I add a new class, I don't want to update my transformer. Second, I wanted to clean up my transformer a bit.

So, I checked out the \newenvironment command. That thing is powerful!

For example:

A lot of books have a dedication, so I created a standard class (default implemented in my CSS) "dedication"

<p class="dedication">Thanks to you all!</p>

I first replaced that in my transformer with:

\ \\[1cm] \noindent Thanks to you all!

But I wasn't really happy with how it looked, wich meant I had to change my code. While I do have a template which is the basis for my final book.

So, I changed the code of my transformer to:

\begin{dedication}
Thanks to you all!
\end{dedication}

and added in my template:

\newenvironment{dedication}
  {\ \\[1cm] \noindent
    \begin{adjustwidth}{1.5em}{1.5em}
  }
  {\end{adjustwidth}}

Now I can change it whenever I want, without having to open Visual Studio...



Well, I made it even a bit more flexible... I made a list of classes, put that in a different (text) file, and all those classes map to either an internal environment (such as center) or a custom made one. Now, if I make a new class, I only have to add it to that text file and add a definition to my template.