styledependent

Styledependent is an adjective used to describe phenomena, methods, or results that vary with stylistic factors or choices. As a compound of style and dependent, the term is not tied to a single formal standard, and its precise meaning depends on the disciplinary context.

In linguistics and sociolinguistics, styledependent variation refers to how language use changes with register, audience, or genre. In typography and digital typesetting, styledependent rendering describes how typography interacts with design style guides, fonts, and emphasis such as bold or italics, influencing metrics and line breaks. In user interface design, styledependent behavior may refer to components and interactions that adapt to the current visual theme or style class.

In information processing, the term sometimes appears in discussions of styledependent parsing or generation, where outputs or analyses change according to stylistic constraints or preferences. The concept also appears in pedagogy and literary studies when describing texts whose interpretation depends on stylistic choices by author or editor.

Because styledependent is not a universally standardized term, authors are advised to define the exact meaning at first use and to specify the domain and style rules involved. See also style, context-sensitivity, and theming.