Ideas for Arc XP

Factbox concept

When writing a story there is often a need to summarize the background context, or provide a bulletlist of facts of some kind, as an aside from the content. This is also used in print publications to summarize in the same way.

I Arc composer there are lots of great content elements to add to the body of a story, but no standard way to add such fact boxes to stories. We had to create a workaround where content start starts and ends with a three dashes

---
factbox header

  • content

  • content

---

is interpreted as a factbox by the print export integration.
The content can be any other element, but is usually a simple h3, and a bulletlist or a numbered list.
This works, but does not look good in digital format - at least not i default themes blocks.

I am thinking there should be a way to add a factbox that can be styled / boxed anywhere in the body, but also as a related item to a story, to be rendered separately on pages by pagebuilder.

Examples - factboxes in right content column
* https://www.dagen.se/debatt/knutby-handlade-mer-om-ursparad-karismatik-1.1735267
https://www.vl.no/religion/halal-turisme-blant-fjord-og-fjell-1.1736462

  • Arnstein Andreassen
  • Jun 29 2020
  • Future consideration
Categories Editor, Layout, New Functionality
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