Text justification

[abhiram]

Hi,

I wants to justify the text found in the home page , about the journal , and in the abstract of each article. I mean right justification of text data

Thanks and Regards
Abhiram .H

[asmecher]

Hi Abhiram,

The easiest way to do this is probably to modify a few template files and introduce a new style or two. For example, to right-justify article abstracts, change the following line in templates/article/article.tpl from:

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<div>{$article->getArticleAbstract()|strip_unsafe_html|nl2br}</div>

...to...

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<div class="abstract">{$article->getArticleAbstract()|strip_unsafe_html|nl2br}</div>

Then define a style called div.abstract, aligned right, and upload it as part of a journal stylesheet on Journal Setup, page 5.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[abhiram]

Hi Alec,

I made the necessary changes u suggested to me on that article.tpl file, but i cant
upload that file as a style sheet , for this it requires a CSS file . how can I upload the modified file.

Thanks and Regards
Abhiram .H

Hi Abhiram,

The easiest way to do this is probably to modify a few template files and introduce a new style or two. For example, to right-justify article abstracts, change the following line in templates/article/article.tpl from:

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<div>{$article->getArticleAbstract()|strip_unsafe_html|nl2br}</div>

...to...

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<div class="abstract">{$article->getArticleAbstract()|strip_unsafe_html|nl2br}</div>

Then define a style called div.abstract, aligned right, and upload it as part of a journal stylesheet on Journal Setup, page 5.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[asmecher]

Hi Abhiram,

You can't upload the template file via OJS -- you'll need to use FTP or SSH or something similar. What I meant when I referred to the stylesheet change was that you also need to add a style to OJS's set of stylesheets to actually align the text using the style named in the modified template.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[abhiram]

Hi Alec,
I didnt get u. Currently i made necessary changes to that article.tpl file. There is a set of CSS files in the /var/www/html/ojs4/styles directory . You want me to copy that article.tpl file to this styles directory. I would like to get a detailed reply on this matter.

Looking Forward ur reply

Thanks and Regards
Abhiram .H

Hi Abhiram,

You can't upload the template file via OJS -- you'll need to use FTP or SSH or something similar. What I meant when I referred to the stylesheet change was that you also need to add a style to OJS's set of stylesheets to actually align the text using the style named in the modified template.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[asmecher]

Hi Abhiram,

Sorry, my response wasn't terribly clear. There are two steps you need to perform:

• Modify the template file. It sounds like you've done this.
• Create a stylesheet to modify the appearance of the new style. On your hard disk, create a file like this:

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  div.abstract {
        text-align: right;
}

  Upload this CSS file in Journal Setup, page 5, as a journal stylesheet. (If you already have one, of course, you'll need to use it as a basis instead and add the above style.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[abhiram]

Hi Alec ,

I just change that template file but how can i prepare CSS file using this code
[code]div.abstract {
text-align: right;
}
Looking forward ur reply

Regards
Abhiram .H

Hi Abhiram,

Sorry, my response wasn't terribly clear. There are two steps you need to perform:

• Modify the template file. It sounds like you've done this.
• Create a stylesheet to modify the appearance of the new style. On your hard disk, create a file like this:[code]div.abstract {
  text-align: right;
  }[/code]Upload this CSS file in Journal Setup, page 5, as a journal stylesheet. (If you already have one, of course, you'll need to use it as a basis instead and add the above style.)

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[asmecher]

Hi Abhiram,

Use a text editor like Notepad. You can either save those lines of code into a file called something.css, for example, and upload that file into Journal Setup page 5, or you can add those lines into styles/common.css in the OJS installation directory.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team