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apping for projects that use custom characters
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f characters in a legacy project use an extended code range, those characters may
display incorrectly when you open that project in QuarkXPress 8.0 or later. To fix
this problem, you can change the way the problematic characters are mapped to
Unicode characters by using a custom mapping table. A mapping table is a text file
that tells QuarkXPress how to convert text that uses a particular flavor of encoding
to Unicode. Each mapping table contains a list of encoding-specific code points and
their corresponding Unicode code points.
To create a mapping table, first navigate to the “CustomMappingTables” folder:
Mac OS X:
[DRIVE]:Library:Application
Support:Quark:QuarkXPress[version]:CustomMappingTables
Windows: [DRIVE]:\Documents and
Settings\ProgramData\Quark\QuarkXPress[version]\CustomMappingT
ables
Within this folder are the following mapping table files:
chinsimpmac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS X Simplified Chinese
encodings.
chintradbig5.txt: Used for legacy files that use Traditional Chinese encodings.
japanesemac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS X Japanese encodings.
japanesewin.txt: Used for legacy files that use Windows Japanese encodings.
koreanmac.txt: Used for legacy files that use Mac OS X Korean encodings.
koreanwin.txt: Used for legacy files that use Windows Korean encodings.
As installed, these mapping tables contain instructions for creating custom
mappings, but they do not include any actual mappings. To create custom
mappings, open the file that corresponds to the encoding used by the target project,
and then follow the instructions in the file to create the mappings you need. Then
quit QuarkXPress, relaunch, and open the project. When you open the project,
QuarkXPress uses your custom mapping table to convert the project’s characters to
Unicode.
Mapping tables are used only when opening pre-8.0 projects. Once you have saved
a project in the current QuarkXPress version format, the text is in Unicode and the
mapping table is no longer required.
Type Tricks
Type Tricks adds the following typographic utilities: Make Fraction, Make Price,
Word Space Tracking, Line Check, and Custom Underline.
Make Fraction
The Make Fraction command (Style > Type Style) enables you to format fractions
automatically. This command becomes active when a fraction is selected or the
cursor is placed adjacent to (and on the same line as) the characters that make up