2019

CHARACTER AND PARAGRAPH FORMATTING
4 | A Guide to XPress Tags 2019
Horizontal scale : <h###.#> in percentage of scale
Vertical scale : <y###.#> in percentage of scale
Kern : <k###.##> in 1/200 em space
Track : <t###.##> in 1/200 em space
Sending : Same tag as tracking but with a value in points added to the end
Baseline shift : <b###.##> in points
Ligatures: <G1> to turn on, or <G0> to turn off
Opacity : <p###.#> in percentage of opacity
OpenType: <o("xxxx")> where “xxxx” = the OpenType feature
Language: <n##> (see “Languages“)
Character alignment : <*An>, where n indicates the type of alignment; <AT> =
Em box top/right, <AO> = ICF top/right, <AC> = center, <AM> = ICF bottom/left,
<AB> = Em box bottom/left, <AL> = baseline
Keep half width characters upright (a character attribute used only in vertical
stories): <Ln>, where <L0> = sideways, <L1> = upright, and <L$> = revert to style
sheet
Emphasis marks : <Mn>, where n is the emphasis mark
Apply sending to non-CJK characters : <Y1> to turn on, <Y0> to turn it off, or
<Y$> to use the current style sheet setting
When any of these commands is followed by a$ (for example, <f$>), the
attributes are set to the values specified in the current character style sheet. If a
character style sheet is not currently applied, the Normal style sheet is used. (A
# character in this list indicates a numeric value.)
The icon indicates text features that are considered East Asian features and
are only available when you have the East Asian preference enabled
(QuarkXPress/Edit( > Preferences > East Asian). However, you can import and
export text that uses these features in XPress Tags format using any language
edition of QuarkXPress.
Languages
You can apply the following languages with the <n##> character tag.
None: <n254>
Bulgarian: <n72>
Catalan: <n73>
Chinese (Simplified): <n52>
Chinese (Traditional): <n53>