SDF 2.001: SDF Guru Guide: Creating New Paragraph Styles

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# 1.4. Creating New Paragraph Styles

## 1.4.1. Using Event Processing

SDF's event processing feature makes it easy to create a new paragraph style from an existing one. For example, the following line makes FEATURE an alias of the P2 style:

    !on paragraph 'FEATURE';; $style='P2'

## 1.4.2. Using Mapping Tables

SDF uses the parastyles filter to define the mapping between an SDF paragraph style and a target paragraph style. For example:

    !block parastyles
    Name        To                      Attributes

    # normal paragraphs
    N           b0_Body

    # headings
    H1          h1_Heading
    H2          h2_Heading
    H3          h3_Heading
    !endblock

## 1.4.3. Creating New Target Paragraph Styles

SDF makes it easy to define new target paragraph styles by inheriting configuration details from an existing style.

See the `look/simple/mif.sdn` file in the SDF distribution for examples.