2020

CHARACTER AND PARAGRAPH FORMATTING
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
Set Tab stops : <*t(##.#,#,"1 or 2 characters")>. Values in •
parentheses represent Position (in points), Alignment, and Fill Characters. For
no fill characters, enter a 1 followed by two spaces. For 1 fill character, enter a 1
followed by the repeat character (enter the character twice). For 2 fill characters,
enter a 2 followed by the alternating characters. Alignment options are 0 for
Left, 1 for Center, 2 for Right, 4 for Decimal, 5 for Comma, and any printing
character (in quotation marks) for Align On. Note: Reverting text to the Normal
style sheet does not revert the alignment to the alignment specified in the
Normal style sheet. Instead, you must specify the new alignment in addition to
reapplying the Normal style sheet. All the tabs for a paragraph are included,
separated by commas, within the parentheses.
Set paragraph attributes : •
<*p(##.#,##.#,##.#,##.#,##.#,##.#,##.#,##,##,G or g(P, S))>.
Values in parentheses represent Left Indent, First Line Indent, Right Indent,
Last Line Indent, Leading, Space Before, Space After, Space Between, Use
Space Before and Lock to Grid. For example, <*p(16,36,16,-
8,14,9,12,0,2,g)> would format text that has a 16 pt Left Indent, 36 pt
First Line Indent, 16 pt Right Indent, -8 pt Last Line Indent, 14 pt Leading, 9
pt Space Before, 12 pt Space After, 0 pt Space Between, Space Before applied
both at column top and between paragraphs and does not Lock to Grid. You
can specify the first line of a paragraph as a percentage of an Em space by using a
decimal percentage value in the First Line Indent position (for example, use 0.6
for 60%). In Space Between, -1 will Ignore Space Between, 0 or any numerical
value will apply Space Between. In Use Space Before, 0 will apply Space Before
only between paragraphs, 1 will apply Space Before only at column top, 2
will apply Space Before both at column top and between paragraphs. If you
specify the leading of a paragraph as a percentage, it is termed as Proportional
Leading. The Proportional Leading value can be both positive and negative. In
the Lock to Grid position, G = lock to grid; g = do not lock to grid, and the two
values in parentheses indicate whether to lock to the page grid (P) or text box
grid (B) and how to align the characters (T = top/right, C = center, S = baseline, B
= bottom/left).
Hyphenation and Justification specification: <*h"specification name">. •
Hyphenation and justification specifications must already exist within the
QuarkXPress project before you import tagged text that specifies them. If you
specify a hyphenation and justification specification in XPress Tags and
QuarkXPress cannot locate the specification in the project’s list of hyphenation
and justification specifications, the Standard hyphenation and justification
specification is substituted. The maximum length for the names of style sheets
and of hyphenation and justification specifications is 63 characters.
Paragraph rule above : <*ra(##,#,"color name",#,##,##,## or •
##%)>. Values in parentheses represent Width, Style, “color name”, Shade,
From Left, From Right, and Offset. Enter rule widths and indents in points. You
can enter “T“ in front of the left indent value to base rule length on the first line
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