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Style sheets can either be embedded in an Ipe document, or reside in
a separate file. Separate files can start with the optional
<?xml> tag.
The style sheet itself consists of the single element
<ipestyle>. It takes the optional attribute name, which
only serves to identify the style sheet informally.
The contents of the style sheet element can consist of the following elements:
template, color, dashstyle, linewidth,
textsize, marksize, arrowsize,
grid, angle, media.
The template element takes a required attribute name,
which identifies the template and must be unique in the style
sheet. Its contents is a single Ipe object.
All other elements have empty contents and two required attributes,
name and value. name defines a symbolic name,
value an absolute value. The symbolic name must start with a
letter 'a' to 'z' or 'A' to 'Z'. The value for the color and
dashstyle elements must be a legal absolute value for the Ipe
object attributes of the same name. The value for linewidth,
textsize, marksize, arrowsize, grid, and
angle must be single real number. The value for media
must be two integers (width and height in Postscript points, i.e. 1/72
inch), separated by white space.
Note that the symbolic names for grid, angle, and
media cannot actually be used by objects in the document--they
are only used to fill the grid size, angular snap angle, and page size
selectors in the user interface with values.
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