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To add a box to an existing group, use XML like the following:
<GROUP>
<ID NAME="MainStoryGroup" UID="300"/>
<BOXREF NAME="MainStoryText" UID="217"/>
<BOXREF NAME="MainStoryPhoto" UID="218" OPERATION="CREATE"/>
</GROUP>
To remove a box from an existing group, use XML like the following:
<GROUP>
<ID NAME="MainStoryGroup" UID="300"/>
<BOXREF NAME="MainStoryHead" UID="216"/>
<BOXREF NAME="MainStoryText" UID="217"/>
<BOXREF NAME="MainStoryPhoto" UID="218" OPERATION="DELETE"/>
</GROUP>
To ungroup an existing group, use XML like the following:
<GROUP>
<ID NAME="MainStoryGroup" UID="300" OPERATION="DELETE"/>
</GROUP>
To proportionally scale all of the items in a group, add a <GEOMETRY> element that indicates
the new size of the group, like so:
<GROUP>
<ID NAME="MainStoryGroup" UID="300"/>
<GEOMETRY>
<POSITION>
<TOP>10.0</TOP>
<LEFT>10.0</LEFT>
<BOTTOM>50.0</BOTTOM>
<RIGHT>70.0</RIGHT>
</POSITION>
</GEOMETRY>
</GROUP>
The order of the <BOXREF> elements in a <GROUP> indicates the order in which the boxes
were selected prior to grouping. The z-order of boxes in the layout is determined by the
order of the <BOX> elements in the XML, from rearmost to frontmost.
XML representations of groups created by versions of QuarkXPress Server prior to 8.1 are
ignored during construct and modify calls, as they were in earlier versions of QuarkXPress
Server.
Modifying text attributes
You can use the modify parameter to change the attributes of text in a QuarkXPress project.
All modifications are done on a text box basis. To modify text properties, use the following
parameters in the Modifier DTD:
"BOX (Modifier schema)"
"ID (Modifier schema)"
"TEXT (Modifier schema)"
"STORY (Modifier schema)"
"PARAGRAPH (Modifier schema)"
"FORMAT (Modifier schema)"
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