Allow Header/Footer font properties per column

[igagis]

It would be good to be able to specify different fonts/size/style per column position (left/center/right) in header and footer.
Right now it is only possible to change font settings for the whole header or whole footer.

header:
  recto_content:
    center: blah blah
    center_font_family: Courier

[mojavelinux]

That's reasonable. However, I think we may have to rethink the key structure. We should rename recto_content to recto_page.

header:
  recto_page:
    center:
      content: blah
      font_family: Courier

wdyt?

If you aren't customizing the font, you could write it as:

header:
  recto_page:
    center: blah

In this case, the position is assumed to be the content.

[igagis]

Looks OK.
And recto_content could be deprecated but still functional to provide backwards compatibility.

[mojavelinux]

Yes, I was thinking about backward compatibility. But likely we won't keep it for 1.5.0 since this is still alpha (one of the key reasons we are still in alpha). I'll phase it out maybe in beta.

[mojavelinux]

Now that I've restructured the keys for the content, I can accommodate the font settings as follows:

header:
  recto:
    center:
      content: blah
      font_family: Courier

I'm going to start by experimenting with font_color as that will be easiest to implement.

Open question: Should we name the segment for face "recto_page" and "verso_page" instead of "recto" and "verso", respectively? (Since I'm remapping the legacy keys, I could still do that without breaking existing themes).

[mojavelinux]

Note to self: Update the theming guide to document the new order of the theme key segments once this issue is resolved.

[mojavelinux]

Since there's a lot of terminology surrounding the running content, I'd like to document some of the terms.

• position - the position of the running content stamp (header or footer)
• side - the page side (recto for right-hand / odd and verso for left-hand / even)
• placement - the placement of the column in the 3-column layout (left, center, or right)

[igagis]

Great!

[mojavelinux]

@igagis Any thoughts about the key recto vs recto_page?

[igagis]

@mojavelinux well, recto is shorter, so easier to type. Otherwise, does not matter in my opinion

[mojavelinux]

Okay, we'll stick with recto/verso for now. Thanks for the input!