Paragraphs

Diagram view views/Paragraphs.lml composing 5 LML includes and 4 associations.

Includes5

Associations4

Types5

Model definitions

BasicBlock¶

class models/blocks/BasicBlock.lml

Block of textual content in BasicDocument.

Attribute	Type	Cardinality	Definition
`+notes`	NoteBlock	0..*	Notes whose scope is the current block.
`+contribMetadata`	ContributionElementMetadata	0..*	Attribution of the block to a specific contributor, to be used in change management of documents.
`+attributes`	Attribute	0..*	Entries from the generic attribute register: an open key-value set that markup languages bind their own attribute types into.

ParagraphBlock¶

class models/blocks/paragraphs/ParagraphBlock.lml

Default block of textual content. Unlike the case for other document models, paragraphs _cannot_ contain other blocks, such as lists, tables, or figures: they are modelled as a basic building block of text.

Attribute	Type	Cardinality	Definition
`+contents`	BasicElement	0..*	Inline elements constituting the content of the paragraph.
`+alignment`	TextAlignment	0..1	The alignment of the paragraph against the margins of the document. Text alignment is the only concession the modelling of paragraphs makes to rendering, and is there because the application of alignment to paragraphs, while rare, can be unpredictable from paragraph semantics. Other rendering attributes of paragraphs, such as spacing before and after, are considered to be semantically predictable and are relegated to document stylesheets.

ParagraphWithFootnote¶

class models/blocks/paragraphs/ParagraphWithFootnote.lml

A paragraph which may also contain footnotes. While most paragraphs in a document can contain footnotes, the distinction is necessary, as footnotes are not appropriate for all instances of paragraph content in a document (e.g. sourcecode annotations).

Attribute	Type	Cardinality	Definition
`+footnotes`	ReferenceToIdWithParagraphElement	0..*	Footnotes contained in the paragraph.

TextAlignment¶

enum models/blocks/paragraphs/TextAlignment.lml

definition
left
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center
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right
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justified
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ParagraphsBlock¶

class models/blocks/multiparagraphs/ParagraphsBlock.lml

Block composed of multiple paragraphs.

Attribute	Type	Cardinality	Definition
`+contents`	BasicBlock	0..*	The paragraphs constituting the ParagraphsBlock.