About Stylesheets

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Built-In Versus Custom Stylesheets Customizing Stylesheets Using Data Items

Built-In Versus Custom Stylesheets

Stylesheets specify formatting and display settings for reports. The report-generation process uses stylesheets to convert reports from DocBook XML format to a format that you specify. If you want to generate the given report in a different format than initially specified, you can convert the XML document using a different or modified stylesheet.

The following table lists report output formats and their default stylesheets.

Report Format	Default Stylesheet
HTML	Uses stylesheets for either single- or multiple-page documents
PDF	Formatting Object (FO) stylesheet
RTF, Word	Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) stylesheet

The following table shows a list of properties for the built-in stylesheets.

Properties of Stylesheets

Name	Description
Description	A description of the stylesheet.
Display name	The stylesheet name that appears in the Options pane.
Transform type	The process used to generate reports that use a specified stylesheet. Supported types are: HTML FO (Formatting Object) for PDF reports DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language) for RTF and Word reports Note   This field is not editable.

In most cases, the stylesheets provided with the MATLAB Report Generator software should be more than adequate for your needs. However, you may want to modify the built-in stylesheets to meet special requirements. For example, suppose one of the built-in stylesheets meets your requirements, but you want to change the page orientation. You can create a custom stylesheet by editing the built-in stylesheet to your specifications.

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Customizing Stylesheets Using Data Items

Each built-in stylesheet includes editable styles, also called data items, organized in categories. These data items specify styles that the file converter uses for a given report. You can edit these data items to customize stylesheets for your reports.

Data items can be of different types, some of which require different editing methods. For more information about editing data items, see Editing Stylesheet Data Items.

Tip   See the Help area at the bottom of the Properties pane on the right for a description of a specific data item that you are editing.

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Creating Custom Stylesheets

Working with Stylesheets

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