8.3 Defining shading subformats

Shading subformats apply to paragraph, character, table, row, and cell formats. When you want shading applied to text, to parts of a table, or to components of a page (RTF only), assign the name of a shading subformat to the item to be shaded. The default is no shading.

As a convention, the name of any shading subformat should end in Shade. If you give a shading subformat a name that does not end in Shade, if the definition is in a file different from the file where it is referenced, DITA2Go will not be able to find the subformat. (But see §8.10 Localizing output headings, labels, and names.)

Shading properties are as follows: 

type

(RTF only) horiz, vert, fdiag, bdiag, cross, dcross, or dk followed by any of the other patterns (as in dkcross)

color

Color of the pattern, or of the fill if no type specified

background color

(RTF only) pattern background, ignored if no type specified

tint

Percent of color if no pattern, ignored if there is a pattern

Properties type and background color apply only to RTF output.

For example:

[DangerShade]
type = dcross
color = orange
[CautionShade]
color = yellow
tint = 80%
[WarningShade]
color = red
tint = 10%

To override shading properties for a particular instance of an element, you can specify a different property in the outputclass attribute for that instance. See §8.4 Overriding border and shading properties.

Previous Topic:  8.2 Defining border subformats

Next Topic:  8.4 Overriding border and shading properties

Parent Topic:  8. Configuring format components

Sibling Topics:

8.1 Managing format components

8.2 Defining border subformats

8.4 Overriding border and shading properties

8.5 Configuring output numbering properties

8.6 Configuring run-in headings for text formats

8.7 Defining cross-reference output formats

8.8 Configuring index see and see-also entries

8.9 Configuring trademark formats

8.10 Localizing output headings, labels, and names