Mark places for usage of a different font

[xahodo]

I have a story in which occasionally a song occurs. I would like to have that song in a different font in the output (when built for LibreOffice, for example). Normal text would be one font, while the text of the song would be in another font.

Is this beyond the scope of NovelWriter, too difficult to implement, or otherwise an issue?

[peter88213]

When I write with OpenOffice Writer, I use the built-in "Quotations" paragraph style in such cases. The contrasting font is defined in the document template.
Conveniently, Markdown has an equivalent for this, namely paragraphs that begin with > . novelWriter also supports this for indented paragraphs. I took a brief look at the code and it seems to me that novelWriter exports this as an auto style. It would be useful if a named style, such as Quotations, were used instead.

[peter88213]

For the time being, you could also use the existing paragraph indentation options to select these paragraphs after exporting to LibreOffice and assign them a "song" style, for example.

This is how you select the indented paragraphs:

[vkbo]

When I write with OpenOffice Writer, I use the built-in "Quotations" paragraph style in such cases. The contrasting font is defined in the document template. Conveniently, Markdown has an equivalent for this, namely paragraphs that begin with > . novelWriter also supports this for indented paragraphs. I took a brief look at the code and it seems to me that novelWriter exports this as an auto style. It would be useful if a named style, such as Quotations, were used instead.

The novelWriter indented paragraph style was intended as a generalisation of the quotation style that can be used as a generic block indent. It's simple enough to add a style for it, but it needs a more generic name than "Quotations". I've been thinking about adding a dedicated blockquote style, so I also want to reserve that style name.

[vkbo]

I have a story in which occasionally a song occurs. I would like to have that song in a different font in the output (when built for LibreOffice, for example). Normal text would be one font, while the text of the song would be in another font.

Is this beyond the scope of NovelWriter, too difficult to implement, or otherwise an issue?

No, it's not really a problem. There's already a feature request for it: #1776

If implemented as a shortcode, it will have next to no impact on the editor, and all that is needed is additional logic in the text tokenizer and the respective output formats. The tokenizer can handle it with very little modification.

I think the best option is to implement it as a fixed pitch option separately from an alternative style option. I think it can be generalised as a way to allow user-defined styles that can be exported to ODT, DocX and HTML as styles/classes.