2019
Table Of Contents
- About this guide
- The user interface
- Tools
- Menus
- Context menus
- Palettes
- Articles palette
- Advanced Image Control palette
- Books palette
- Callout Styles palette
- Colors palette
- Conditional Styles palette
- Content palette
- Content Variables palette
- Footnote Styles palette
- Glyphs palette
- Gradients palette
- Grid Styles palette
- Guides palette
- HTML5 Palette
- Hyperlinks palette
- Image Editing palette
- Index palette
- Item Styles palette
- JavaScript palette
- JavaScript Debugger palette
- Layers palette
- Layout Blocks
- Lists palette
- Measurements palette
- Page Layout palette
- Profile Information palette
- Redline palette
- Scale palette
- Style Sheets palette
- Table Styles palette
- Text Shading Styles palette
- Tools palette
- Palette groups and palette sets
- Layout controls
- Views and view sets
- Projects and layouts
- Native QuarkXPress objects
- Content variables
- Boxes, lines, and tables
- Understanding items and content
- Understanding handles
- Understanding Bézier shapes
- Drop Shadows
- Item Find/Change
- Working with boxes
- Creating text and picture boxes
- 9-Point Reference Grid
- Resizing boxes
- Auto Grow/Shrink Text Boxes
- Locking box and picture proportions
- Reshaping boxes
- Adding borders to boxes
- Applying colors to boxes
- Applying gradients to boxes
- Specifying number of columns in text boxes
- Merging and splitting boxes
- Adding text and pictures to boxes
- Changing box type
- Creating a box from a clipping path
- Copying attributes from one box to another
- Super Step and Repeat
- ShapeMaker
- Working with lines
- Manipulating items
- Working with callouts
- Working with tables
- Drawing a table
- Converting text to tables
- New Table Model with Table Styles
- Importing Excel tables
- Importing Excel charts
- Adding text and pictures to tables
- Editing table text
- Linking table cells
- Inserting and deleting rows and columns
- Combining cells
- Manually resizing tables, rows, and columns
- Converting tables back to text
- Working with tables and groups
- Continuing tables in other locations
- Text and typography
- Editing text
- Importing and exporting text
- Word Filter
- Finding and changing text
- Working with footnotes and endnotes
- Checking spelling
- Counting words and characters
- Working with grouped characters
- Working with non-breaking character sets
- Format painter
- Aligning characters on a line
- Applying character attributes
- Applying a font
- Applying font styles
- Choosing a font size
- Applying type styles
- Applying color, shade, and opacity
- Applying horizontal or vertical scale
- Applying baseline shift
- Applying emphasis value
- Applying text stroke
- Controlling half-width characters
- Working with font sets
- Applying multiple character attributes
- Applying paragraph attributes
- Working with text shading
- Controlling kerning
- Controlling hyphenation and justification
- Controlling tracking
- Working with style sheets
- Working with conditional styles
- Bullets and numbering
- Positioning text in text boxes
- Controlling font usage
- Converting text to boxes
- Using text runaround
- Working with text paths
- Creating drop caps
- Creating rules above and below paragraphs
- Using anchored boxes
- Working with OpenType Styles
- Working with Color Fonts
- Working with the Glyphs palette
- Displaying invisible characters
- Inserting special characters
- Specifying character language
- Using font fallback
- Working with font mapping rules
- Working with design grids
- Working with rubi text
- Working with hanging characters
- Working with Mojigumi sets and classes
- Character mapping for legacy projects
- Type Tricks
- Hyperlinks
- Creating a destination
- Creating an anchor
- Creating a hyperlink using an existing destination
- Creating a hyperlink from scratch
- Showing links in the Hyperlinks palette
- Formatting hyperlinks
- Editing and deleting destinations
- Editing and deleting anchors
- Editing and deleting hyperlinks
- Navigating using the Hyperlinks palette
- Indic Support
- Overview
- Text and Typography support
- Support for Indic Unicode Fonts
- Integration with Input Method Editors (IMEs)
- Indic text input
- Indic text deletion
- OpenType features
- Spell Check
- Hyphenation
- Drop Caps
- Find/ Change
- Enhanced Glyph palette support
- Font grouping, Font fallback, Font Locking, Language locking
- Kerning/ Tracking
- Support for Zero Width Joiner and Zero Width Non-Joiner
- Pictures
- Working with pictures
- Importing a picture
- Spring Loading on Cursor
- Moving pictures
- Resizing pictures
- Cropping pictures
- Rotating and skewing pictures
- Coloring and shading pictures
- Flipping pictures
- Listing, verifying status of, and updating pictures
- Specifying background colors for pictures
- Maintaining picture attributes
- Editing the raster image
- Working with clipping paths
- Working with alpha masks
- Working with PSD pictures
- Working with pictures
- Cross references
- Color, opacity, and drop shadows
- Working with colors
- The Colors palette
- The Colors dialog box
- Creating a color
- Creating gradients
- Editing a color
- Duplicating a color
- Deleting a color
- Adding colors using the color picker tool
- Importing colors from another article or project
- Changing all instances of one color to another color
- Applying color and shade to text
- Applying color and shade to lines
- Applying transparency blend modes
- Working with opacity
- Color management
- Source setups and output setups
- The color management experience for users
- Working with source setups and output setups from a color expert
- Working in a legacy color management environment
- Proofing color on screen (soft proofing)
- Color management for experts
- Creating a source setup
- Creating an output setup
- Managing profiles
- Working with drop shadows
- Working with colors
- Custom Bleeds
- Item Styles
- DejaVu (Windows only)
- Document construction
- Using automatic page numbering
- Creating an automatic text box
- Working with master pages
- Working with layers
- Understanding layers
- Creating layers
- Selecting layers
- Showing and hiding layers
- Determining which layer an item is on
- Deleting layers
- Changing layer options
- Moving items to a different layer
- Copying and pasting items between layers
- Changing the stacking order of layers
- Layers and text runaround
- Duplicating layers
- Merging layers
- Locking items on layers
- Using master pages with layers
- Suppressing printout of layers
- Using PDF layers
- Working with lists
- Working with indexes
- Working with books
- Working with libraries
- Guides Palette
- Scale functionality
- Cloner functionality
- ImageGrid functionality
- Linkster functionality
- Output
- Collaboration and single-sourcing
- Notes
- Redline
- Job Jackets
- Working with multiple languages
- XTensions software
- Preferences
- Understanding preferences
- Application preferences
- Preferences — Application — Display
- Preferences — Application — Color Theme
- Preferences — Application — Key Shortcuts
- Preferences — Application — Input Settings
- Preferences — Application — Font Fallback
- Preferences — Application — Undo
- Preferences — Application — Open and Save
- Preferences — Application — XTensions Manager
- Preferences — Application — Sharing
- Preferences — Application — Fonts
- Preferences — Application — Text Highlighting
- Preferences — Application — East Asian
- Preferences — Application — Dynamic Guides Color
- Preferences — Application — File List
- Preferences — Application — Default Path
- Preferences — Application — Index
- Preferences — Application — Job Jackets
- Preferences — Application — Notes
- Preferences — Application — PDF
- Preferences — Application — Redline
- Preferences — Application — Spell-Check
- Preferences — Application — Tables
- Preferences — Application — Fraction/Price
- Project preferences
- Layout preferences
- Preferences — Layout — General
- Preferences — Layout — Measurements
- Preferences — Layout — Paragraph
- Preferences — Layout — Character
- Preferences — Layout — Tools
- Preferences — Layout — Guides and Grid
- Preferences — Layout — Grid Cell Fill
- Preferences — Layout — Color Manager
- Preferences — Layout — Layers
- Contacting Quark
- Legal notices
CONTENT VARIABLES
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Insert a content variable
To insert a content variable in your project:
Place the insertion point where you want the variable to appear. 1.
Select Utilities > Content Variable and choose the variable you want to insert 2.
from the drop-down menu.
The variable appears on the page as if you’d typed it in the document.
Content variables can be inserted into lists and indexes.