8.0
Table Of Contents
- Overview
- New and enhanced features
- Getting started
- Functions
- Function overview
- Render types
- Content modifiers
- Render modifiers
- XML modify
- XML deconstruct and construct
- About XML deconstruct/construct
- xml
- construct
- Deconstructing a project
- Constructing a project
- Working with pages and spreads
- Working with layers
- Working with boxes
- Working with pictures
- Working with text
- Working with tables
- Working with Composition Zones
- Using server XSLT
- Working with lists
- Working with anchored boxes
- Working with placeholders
- Working with metadata
- Working with hidden text
- Administrative Request handlers
- The Modifier DTD
- Sample applications
- Contact Quark
- Legal notice
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ew and enhanced features in QuarkXPress Server 8
QuarkXPress Server 8 includes a number of new and improved features. This section lists those new or
enhanced features that affect the WIG.
Rubi text support
Rubi text clarifies the meaning or pronunciation of base text and is commonly used in Japanese
typography. Base text can run vertically or horizontally, and rubi text usually follows the direction of the
base text. Modifier SXT now supports the deconstruction and modification of rubi text constructed in
QuarkXPress 8 and construction of new rubi text in document construction and modification. Note that
rubi text present in a project can't be modified.
An element named RUBI has been added to the Modifier DTD, as a sibling to RICHTEXT, allowing the
characteristics of rubi text to be specified. If Annotation is set to true for rubi text, original glyphs in rubi
are replaced from the equivalent annotation glyph in the font (if font supports annotation or there is no
change). For details about this element, see The Annotated Modifier DTD
.
Support for font sets
Font sets let you control how different types of characters â such as alphabetic (Roman) and Han
characters â display when they occur together in text.
You can create a new font set in the QuarkXPress 8 Edit Font Set dialog box (
Edit > Font Sets > New). Each font set is composed of a set of font types, each of which has its own
settings.
Modifier SXT now supports font sets applied to text in QuarkXPress on deconstructing a document
using the âXMLâ render type, and when modifying (or constructing) a document using Modifier XML.
Note that you can't modify the fontset created in a project, and you can't modify the fontset applied on
saved text in a project.
FONTSET is added as a RICHTEXT attribute in the Modifier DTD.
Support for double strikethrough
QuarkXPress 8 adds the new text formatting option
double strikethrough. It is supported as an attribute of the RICHTEXT element in Modifier XML.
Support for emphasis marks
QuarkXPress 8 adds the capability to add emphasis marks as a text attribute to text. Modifier SXT now
supports QuarkXPress 8 emphasis marks as an attribute to the RICHTEXT element.
Story direction
In QuarkXPress 8, you can position text so that it runs left-to-right and top-tobottom or top-to-bottom
and right-to-left. In Modifier XML, the story direction can be specified through the
TEXT@STORYDIRECTION attribute.
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