Set Style - lifelike/countersheetsextension GitHub Wiki

Setting the style of an object is a special case of setting an attribute. See the topic on Set Attribute. What makes style special is that usually only a single part of the style (eg the fill color or stroke color) should be changed. While it is possible to use id[style] to set the entire style attribute for each counter, that would result in very much data in the CSV, and also if editing other parts of the style in the template those changes would be overwritten in the generated counters.

Instead for just affecting a part of the style use the syntax id[style:part] where id refers to the id of the object (in Object Properties) to modify, style is exactly that literal string (in lowercase), and part is the name of the part to set.

As an example of what the style attribute can look like, this is taken from the counter.svg example file, and shows how complex the style in Inkscape can be even for an object that has had no special styling set at all:

font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:15px;line-height:125%;font-family:sans-serif;-inkscape-font-specification:’sans-serif, Normal’;text-align:start;letter-spacing:0px;word-spacing:0px;writing-mode:lr-tb;text-anchor:start;fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none;stroke-width:1px;stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:miter;stroke-opacity:1

By looking at that value we can find the names of the parts that can be set for each counter. Common ones are fill and stroke.

Example: To give the counters in the counters.svg example different colors for their movement rating numbers, add a column to counters.csv with a header move[style:fill] and then put a valid SVG color (eg #143f99 or red) in that column for each row (see this list of 140 or so standard SVG color names you can use). Create Countersheet to see the countersheet generated with different colors for the numbers.

New in 2.1: It is possible to use the name of a color defined in the Swatch for the current drawing. Swatches are set up in the Fill and Strokes dialog. How to manage a swatch of colors is beyond the scope of this wiki. Use the name of the Swatch exactly as seen in the Inkscape user interface. It is also possible to reference gradients and patterns this way, although they will most likely be offset in unexpected ways and not really useful. It is recommended to instead use Copy Style to use gradients. The same is true for gradients saved in the Swatch. See for instance the documentation at http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Attributes-Fill-Stroke.html#Attributes-CustomSwatches

Inkscape internally supports a number of standard colors. See the SVG Color Names page for a table showing what is already available. No need to define your own if something you like is already in that list.

There is also special syntax available to Copy Style from another given object in the SVG described Copy Style.

See also: Set Attribute, Copy Style, Templates, Wildcards, SVG Color Names