2020

UNDERSTANDING XPRESS TAGS
you want it applied (or for type styles, you can enter the code for plain text,
<P>).
For XPress Tags code commands that let you specify more than one value (such •
as paragraph attributes), you can enter a $ in place of an actual value. When
QuarkXPress encounters a $ code, the program substitutes the value specified in
the currently applied style sheet. (If no style sheet is currently applied, the value
of the Normal style sheet is used.) For example, you might want a paragraph to
contain all the formats specified in the applied style sheet, but you want to
apply 18 points of leading instead of the value specified in the style sheet. The
code for this would be: <*p($,$,$,14,$,$,$,$)>.
Names you specify as XPress Tags codes must be preceded and terminated by an •
inch mark “ character. For example, if you want to specify the font
AvenirLTStd-Roman, use the <f"AvenirLTStd-Roman"> code.
Some features (such as rubi text, group characters, and emphasis marks) are only •
available when you have the East Asian preference enabled (QuarkXPress/Edit( >
Preferences > East Asian). However, you can open a project that uses such
features in any edition of QuarkXPress, and you can import and export text that
uses these features in XPress Tags format using any language edition of
QuarkXPress.
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