2020

UNDERSTANDING XPRESS TAGS
A GUIDE TO XPRESS TAGS 2020 | 1
Understanding XPress Tags
With XPress Tags Filter XTensions software, you can use plain text files to import
and export text into QuarkXPress layouts with paragraph and character attributes
already applied. Because the plain text file format doesn’t actually support
attributes, the formatting is indicated with codes that are translated by the XPress
Tags filter. As the new character and paragraph formatting options are added to
QuarkXPress, new XPress Tags codes are added to support the new attributes.
Importing tagged text
To import a plain text file that contains embedded XPress Tags codes:
Choose File > Import. 1.
Select the target XPress tags file. 2.
The application attempts to detect the encoding of the XPress Tags file. To 3.
specify a different encoding, choose an option from the Encoding drop-down
menu.
To convert XPress Tags codes into actual character attributes and paragraph 4.
formats, check Interpret XPress Tags in the Import Text dialog box. If you do
not check Interpret XPress Tags in the Import Text dialog box before
importing tagged text, QuarkXPress does not convert XPress Tags codes. Instead,
the program imports the codes as text characters.