2020

STYLE SHEETS
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Style sheets
You can use XPress Tags to apply character style sheets and establish a relationship
between paragraph and character style sheets.
Defining style sheets
Style sheet definitions may include paragraph attributes only, character attributes
only, or both paragraph and character attributes.
Define paragraph style sheet with default character attributes: •
@stylesheetname=[Sp"",""] <paragraph and character attributes>
(Hard Return) For example, @Paragraph1=[Sp"",""]<*L*h"Standard"
*kn0*kt0*ra0*rb0*d0*p(0,0,0,0,0,0,g(B,S))PBs100t0h100z14k0b0c"
Red"f"Times-Roman">
Define character style sheet: @stylesheetname=<character •
attributes>(Hard Return) For example, @Char1=<Ps100t–
3h100z10k0b0cK f"Palatino-Roman">
Define paragraph style sheet with character style sheet: •
@stylesheetname=[Sp"","","character stylesheetname"]<paragraph
attributes>(Hard Return) For example,
@Paragraph1=[Sp"","Paragraph1","Char1"]
<*L*h"Standard"*kn0*kt0*ra0*rb0*d0*p(0,0,0,0,0,0,g(B,S))>
Base one paragraph style sheet on another, and apply Next Style: •
@stylesheetname=[Sp"based on paragraph stylesheetname","next
paragraph stylesheetname","character
stylesheetname"]<paragraph attributes>(Hard Return) For example,
@Paragraph2=[Sp"Paragraph1", "Paragraph3","Char1"]<*t(121,1,
"1."227,1,"1 ")>
Base one character style sheet on another: •
@stylesheetname=[St"","","","based on character
stylesheetname"] <character attributes>(Hard Return) For example,
@Char2=[St"","","","Char1"] <PBf"ArialMT">
Applying style sheets
The @ character is used to apply a style sheet. When applying a character style sheet,
you can set all character attributes to the character style sheet’s default attributes by
preceding @ with an “x“. This clears any existing character attribute overrides. For