Typesetting different kinds of text

[sasja-san]

Description

I want to have different kinds of text in a document be typeset in different ways;
For a paragraph I want the first lines be black text, started by a bold, and then I want the next line to be red, started by a bold red word.

But maybe not red? I won't know until I've seen it in print. My guess is the code would look something like this

|
| [Start of line is bold or something]{.start_a}[ and the rest normal]{.norm_a}.
| [Line nr two in paragraph is perhaps colored?]{.start_b}[ and the rest normal, but colored, probably]{.norm_b}.
|

I just borrowed the syntax from {.aside} here, but I hope you get my point. Any advice or pointers on how toying around with styles and testing could be done would be greatly appreciated. The end goal is a printed palmphlet, so maybe this task is easiest to do in latex directly?

[mcanouil]

Depending on the format, the components inside the curly brackets varies, e.g., for HTML style="color:red;".

See https://m.canouil.dev/quarto-highlight-text/ for an example of implementation for multi format with a unified input syntax.

Regarding the "first sentence" etc. you need a LUA filter and define the logic to read/parse paragraphs, then apply what you want.

[mcanouil]

@gordonwoodhull does the style attribute also work for Typst with the CSS feature? (it won't for LaTex or OpenXML a.k.a. Word)

[gordonwoodhull]

also work for Typst with the CSS feature?

Good point, my example only work for HTML and Typst.

I think you could use shortcodes in combination with @mcanouil's extension if you are targeting Latex or Docx.

[gordonwoodhull]

Using highlight-text + shortcodes:

---
title: 'shortcode a color'
filters:
  - quarto
  - highlight-text
red: '#ff1111'
blue: '#1111ff'
green: '#11aa11'
---

We want to color the words [red]{color='{{<meta red>}}'}, [blue]{color='{{<meta blue>}}'}, and [green]{color='{{<meta green>}}'}.

Works across HTML, PDF, Typst and Docx.

[mcanouil]

Maybe it has to do with filter orders here. highlight-text should happen after Quarto because I did not write the Lua to handle shortcodes.

Additionally, you should use full hex colour code for now, that's the only colour code fully supported for all formats.

[gordonwoodhull]

Thanks, I've edited my answer!