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Table Of Contents

Contents
About this guide
- What we're assuming about you
- Where to go for help
- Conventions
- Technology note
The user interface
- Tools
  - Scissors XTensions software
  - Shape of Things XTensions software
    - Using the Starburst tool
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
Projects and layouts
- Working with projects
- Working with layouts
  - Project-level and layout-level resources
- Working with guides
- Undoing and redoing actions
Content variables
- Edit content variables
- Create a custom content variable
- Insert a content variable
Boxes, lines, and tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Drop Shadow XTensions software
- Item Find/Change XTensions software
- Working with boxes
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
Text and typography
- Editing text
- Importing and exporting text
  - Import/export filters
  - Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Finding and changing text
  - Special character codes
- Working with footnotes and endnotes
  - Inserting footnotes and endnotes
  - Footnote styles
  - Footnote separators
- Checking spelling
  - Auxiliary dictionaries
- Counting words and characters
- Applying character attributes
  - Applying a font
  - Choosing a font size
  - Applying type styles
  - Applying color, shade, and opacity
  - Applying horizontal or vertical scale
  - Applying baseline shift
  - Applying emphasis
  - Controlling half-width characters
  - Counting characters
  - Working with font sets
  - Working with grouped characters
  - Aligning characters on a line
  - Applying multiple character attributes
- Applying paragraph attributes
  - Controlling alignment
  - Controlling indentation
  - Controlling leading
  - Controlling space before and after paragraphs
  - Setting tabs
  - Controlling widow and orphan lines
  - Working with non-breaking character sets
- Format painter
- Controlling kerning
  - Kerning manually
  - Kerning automatically
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
  - Specifying hyphenation exceptions
  - Hyphenation exception files
  - Using discretionary hyphens
- Controlling tracking
  - Tracking manually
  - Editing tracking tables
  - Sending
- Working with style sheets
  - Creating and editing paragraph style sheets
  - Creating and editing character style sheets
  - Applying style sheets
  - Appending style sheets
- Working with conditional styles
  - Creating a conditional style
  - Applying a conditional style
  - Removing conditional styles
  - Using conditional style markers
  - Editing a conditional style
- Bullets and numbering
  - Working with bullet styles
  - Working with numbering styles
  - Working with outline styles
  - Bullets, numbering, outlines, and style sheets
- Positioning text in text boxes
  - Using baseline grid
  - Aligning text vertically
  - Specifying text inset
  - Specifying story direction
- Controlling font usage
- Converting text to boxes
- Using text runaround
  - Running text around all sides of an item
  - Running text around lines and text paths
  - Running text around text boxes
  - Running text around pictures
  - Fine-tuning a runaround path
  - Editing a runaround path
- Working with text paths
- Creating drop caps
- Creating rules above and below paragraphs
- Using anchored boxes
  - Anchoring boxes and lines in text
  - Cutting, copying, pasting, and deleting anchored boxes and lines
  - Unanchoring boxes and lines
- Working with OpenType fonts
  - Applying OpenType styles
  - Using ligatures
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
  - Inserting spaces
  - Inserting other special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- Importing and exporting text with Unicode options
- Working with font mapping rules
- Working with design grids
  - Understanding design grids
  - Design grid basics
  - Working with grid styles
    - Creating grid styles
    - Applying a grid style to a text box
  - Using design grids
- Working with rubi text
  - Rubi alignment options
  - Mono rubi
  - Rubi base alignment options
  - Rubi overhang options
- Working with hanging characters
  - Creating hanging character classes
  - Creating hanging character sets
  - Applying hanging character sets
- Working with mojigumi sets and classes
  - Creating and editing mojigumi character classes
  - Creating and editing mojigumi sets
  - Applying mojigumi sets
- Character mapping for legacy projects
  - Mapping for projects that use UDA/VDA characters
  - Mapping for projects that use custom characters
- Type Tricks
  - Make Fraction
  - Make Price
  - Word Space Tracking
  - Line Check
  - Custom Underline
Pictures
- Working with pictures
- Working with clipping paths
- Working with alpha masks
- Working with PSD pictures
Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Working with colors
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Working with drop shadows
Custom Bleeds
- Using Custom Bleeds
- Using Clip at Bleed Edge
DejaVu XTensions software (Windows only)
Document construction
- Using automatic page numbering
- Creating an automatic text box
- Working with master pages
- Working with layers
- Working with lists
- Working with indexes
- Working with books
- Working with libraries
- Guide Manager Pro XTensions software
- Scale XTensions software
- Cloner XTensions software
- ImageGrid XTensions software
- Linkster XTensions software
Output
- Printing layouts
- Exporting layouts
- Using Collect for Output
- Working with output styles
- Working with trapping
- Understanding flattening and production issues
- PDF Filter XTensions software
  - Importing a PDF file into a picture box
Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Working with shared content
- Working with Composition Zones
  - Understanding Composition Zones
    - Composition Zones terminology
  - Creating a Composition Zones item
- Placing a Composition Zones item
- Editing a composition layout: Content
- Editing the contents of a composition layout
- Unsynchronizing a composition layout
- Deleting a composition layout
Notes
- Creating notes
- Working with notes
Redline
- Tracking changes
- Viewing tracked changes
- Accepting and rejecting changes
eBooks
- Options for eBook layouts
- Working with Reflow
- Adding interactivity to ePub eBooks
- Working with interactivity actions
  - Creating a Play Sound File action
  - Creating a Show Pop-Up action
- Creating a TOC for ePub or Kindle
- Working with eBook metadata
- Exporting for ePub
- Exporting for Kindle
Job Jackets
- Understanding Job Jackets
- Working with Job Jackets
  - Basic mode and Advanced mode
  - Creating Job Jackets files
- Working with Job Tickets
- The default Job Jackets file
- Working with Resources: Advanced mode
- Working with Layout Specifications
  - Creating a Layout Specification: Advanced mode
  - Applying a Layout Specification to a layout
- Working with Rules and Rule Sets
- Evaluating a layout
- Job Jackets locking
- Printing with JDF output
Working with multiple languages
- Applying a character language
- Changing the program language
XTensions software
- Working with XTensions modules
- Item Styles XTensions software
- Script XTensions software
- Word 6–2000 Filter
- Other XTensions modules
Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Project preferences
  - Preferences — Project — General
- Layout preferences
Legal notices
Index

Insert a content variable

To insert a content variable in your project:

Place the insertion point where you want the variable to appear.

Select Utilities > Content Variable and choose the variable you want to insert from

the drop-down menu.

The variable appears on the page as if you'd typed it in the document.

You can select View > Highlight Content Variables to highlight all content variable

in the current project.

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