Paragraph

Paragraph classes are used for definitions typically applied to paragraph-level nodes. The style settings of all parent elements (e.g. lists) will be also inherited to the paragraph style. Inline-style settings specified in a paragraph class will be applied to all child nodes, if not overwritten.

Selectors

• Definitions:

  • paragraph

  • heading-1

  • heading-2

  • heading-3

  • heading-4

  • heading-5

  • heading-6

• Generic:

  • heading-all: Matches any heading paragraph.

  • defaults: Used as base style for any styling within the document.

• See also: Headers and Footers, Footnotes Area, Figures, Figure Captions, Divider, Block, List, Table, Table Cell, Table of Contents, Table of Contents Item

Style Settings

See also: Inline

Setting	Type	Examples	Description
default-tab-interval	Length	4cm, 20pt, 4em	The default length of the spacing between the beginning of two tab stops.
first-line-indent	Length	1em	The indentation of the first line of a paragraph.
hyphenation	Boolean	yes, no	Whether hyphenation shold be applied to a paragraph.
justify-line-breaks	Boolean	no, yes	Whether text should be justified on line breaks. (PDF only. Fixed line breaks are always justified when opening DOCX files in Microsoft Word, but not justified in Pages.)
keep-with-following	Boolean	yes, no	Keep the paragraph with the following paragraphs if a page break occurs.
line-height	Length	1em, auto	The distance between the baselines of two adjacent lines of a paragraph.
margin-bottom	Length	1em	The bottom margin of a paragraph.
margin-left	Length	1em	The left margin of a paragraph.
margin-right	Length	1em	The right margin of a paragraph.
margin-top	Length	1em	The top margin of a paragraph.
orphans-and-widows	Symbol	allowed, prevented	The handling of orphans and widows in paragraphs.
page-break	Symbol	none, after, before	Specifies, whether a page break should occur before or after a paragraph.
tab-alignments	Array	left, right, center	The horizontal text alignments for each tabulator.
tab-positions	Array	[4em, 8em, 12em, 16em]	The start positions for each tabulators.
text-alignment	Symbol	left, center, right, justified, auto	The horizontal alignment of a paragraph’s text.

Pseudoclasses

See also: Inline

Example

// Default style settings
defaults {
  font-family:    "Helvetica Neue"
  text-align:     justified
}

// Paragraph style settings for all headings
heading-all {
  font-family:     "Futura"
  text-align:      left
  margin-bottom:   10pt
}