Is it possible to make {glue:text} not bold?

[NatalieZelenka]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Hi, I am really enjoying MyST-NB, thank you for all your work on it!

I understand that this issue will probably not be too urgent for you, but I have a paragraph that is very dense with {glue:text} directives, and the bold type is a bit overwhelming (I am gluing from file descriptions that are quite long and have a lot going on).

Describe the solution you'd like The bold makes sense a lot of the time, so I guess I'd like the option to turn it off for an individual directive, as an additional argument. A separate {glue:regular} would also be fine for me.

Describe alternatives you've considered I guess there is probably some css somewhere that can define how these look: do you know how I could do that? In that case, I could change that to make it not bold, then bold any that I want bold using **{glue:text}**

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[choldgraf]

Ah interesting - so you'd like to make some glue:text bold, and other glue:text not-bold. Is that right?

Right now the simplest solution I can think of is to wrap your "bold" glue:text in some kind of CSS wrapper that would let you write a custom CSS rule for it, so that you can de-bold that way. Maybe that'd work?

[NatalieZelenka]

I will try that, thank you!

[foster999]

I was curious why text is formatted bold by default when glueing, in contrast to the Rmarkdown equivalent, which matches the surrounding formatting?

From an accessibility point of view, bold or italics are useful when the emphasis is informative but I think they can be misleading if there's no purpose for the emphasis. This could be confusing both visually or if being read by a screen-reader, for example.

I'm not strongly advocating a change but wondered if it was worth considering whether the emphasis is functional in the majority of use cases. I.e. does the reader need to know that the text was dynamically inserted?

[choldgraf]

I think we originally did this in order to make it clear what was programmatically inserted vs. what was written manually. That said, I can see how a more "opinionated" style is perhaps not the best by default, and if people want things to be bold they (I think?) could always just wrap in **.

Is anybody opposed to removing extra CSS formatting for glued text/numbers and having it just inherit from its context?

[flukeymcswagger]

An alternative approach: allow for arbitrary 'glue:<your_value>' here that generates an equivalent CSS selector so you can define your own formatting options. I.e.: using {glue:text}'some_var' generates a span with the class 'pasted-text' assigned to it and span.pasted-text { font-weight: bold;} in mystnb.css. If you could specify {glue:my_format_text}'some_var' and have it assign the class 'my_format_text' to the resulting span, authors could craft customized CSS for arbitrary glued output.

[hammerdirt-analyst]

Hi, What is the status of this? Our use case is figure captions. The caption title and descriptive is generated and then "glued" right after the {numref} call for the actual figure. It comes out nice except for the bold.