2020

CHARACTER AND PARAGRAPH FORMATTING
2 is overhang, where 0 = none, 1 = up to one rubi character, 2 = up to 1/2 rubi •
character, 3 = up to one base character, 4 = up to 1/2 base character, and 5 =
unrestricted.
B is placement relative to base text, where A = Above and B = below. •
T is auto-alignment, where T = true and F = false. •
Group characters
Character grouping lets you group horizontal characters in a vertical text story.
This feature is an East Asian feature and is 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.
Group character tags use the following form:
<A(\#72ABC\#40<t–10h80>)>
The contents of this tag are as follows:
<A()> encloses the tag. •
/#72 and /#40 mark the beginning and end of the grouped characters. •
<t–10h80> are applications of tracking and horizontal scaling (see “Character •
attributes“).
Font sets
Font sets let you specify a group of fonts to be applied to different types of text in a
text run. Like style sheet definitions, font set definitions are stored in XPress Tags
files. For example, if you export text that uses a font set named “Fontset 1,” the
definition of Fontset 1 is exported in the form of a tag like the following, at the
beginning of the XPress Tag file:
@Fontset 1=[F]<"HiraMinPro-W3",100,0,h100,"GrecoStd-
DB",100,0,h100,
"Corbel",100,0,h100,"HiraMinPro-W3",89.999,-5,h105,"Times-
Roman",100,0,h100>
In the , font set tags are as follows:
<h105z10.89b-0.6f"HiraMinPro-W3",("Fontset 1",12)>
The contents of this tag are as follows:
h105 = horizontal or vertical scaling (see “Character attributes“). •
z10.8 = percentage of current font size •
b-0.6 = baseline shift, in points •
f"HiraMinPro-W3" = font •
("Fontset 1", 12) = name of the font set to be applied and current point size •
of the font
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