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• Use the Horizontal and Vertical drop-down menus to specify the measurement
system for the rulers displayed along the top and left of the layout window.
Horizontal corresponds to the top ruler; Vertical corresponds to the left ruler.
• Several other aspects of the user interface are affected by these two drop-down
menus, including the default X and Y coordinates in the Measurements palette.
QuarkXPress automatically converts font size, frame width, leading, and line
width to points, regardless of the measurement system you choose.
• Use the Points/Inch field to override the default value of 72 points per inch.
QuarkXPress uses the value here as the basis for all point and pica measurements,
as well as for all point- and pica-to-inch conversions. The desktop publishing
standard for points per inch is 72. However, the traditional typographic standard
used on most metal typographic rulers is usually approximately 72.27 or 72.307
points per inch (range = 60 to 80 pt, measurement system = points, smallest
increment = .001).
• Use the Ciceros/cm field to specify a ciceros-to-centimeter conversion value
different from the standard 2.1967 (range = 2 to 3 c, measurement system = ciceros,
smallest increment = .001).
• Use the Item Coordinates buttons to specify whether the increments of the
horizontal ruler repeat from zero for each Page or are continuous across a Spread.
This setting determines the coordinates of items displayed in fields. The default
option is Page.
• Use the Measurement Units drop-down menu to set the default measurement
unit for new layouts.
Preferences — Layout — Paragraph
Use the Paragraph pane of the Preferences dialog box (QuarkXPress/Edit menu) to
control various paragraph-level settings.
Use the Auto Leading feature to automatically set line spacing. You can apply this
setting to a paragraph by entering "auto" or "0" in the Leading field of the Paragraph
Attributes dialog box (Style > Leading). Unlike paragraphs with absolute leading
(identical line spacing above every line), paragraphs with auto leading may include
lines with different leading when fonts and font sizes are mixed in the same paragraph.
Auto leading starts with a base amount of leading, which QuarkXPress calculates by
examining the ascent and descent values built into the fonts used in an auto-leaded
line and the line above it; however, the user-specified text size (Style > Size) plays the
largest part in determining this base amount. Finally, a value specified by the user in
the Auto Leading field is added to the base amount to arrive at the total amount of
leading.
To specify percentage-based auto leading, enter a value from 0% to 100% in 1%
increments. This value determines the amount of leading between two lines of text
as follows: The largest font size in the line above is multiplied by the percentage value.
This outcome is added to the base amount of auto leading between the two lines.
Although the design of certain fonts complicates the process, here is a simplified
example: 10-point text styled consistently in a "standard" font with Auto Leading set
to 20% has 12 points of leading (10 pts + [20% of 10] = 12 pts). To specify incremental
auto leading, enter a value preceded by a plus sign (+) or a minus sign (–) from –63
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