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Contents Understanding XPress Tags 1 Importing tagged text 1 Generating tagged text in another application 1 General information on XPress tags 1 Character and Paragraph Formatting 3 Font Styling 3 Character attributes 3 Languages 5 Rubi text 7 Group characters 8 Font sets 8 OpenType attributes 9 Basic set 9 Alternate forms 11 Alternate metrics 12 Paragraph attributes 12 Other attributes 16 Turn on/off styling 17 Revert styling to style sheets 17 Style Sheets 18 Defini
Colors 21 Defining a custom color 21 Detailed Custom Color Definition 21 Applying a custom color 22 Special Characters 23 Encoding 23 Escape characters 23 Other special characters 23 ASCII codes 25 Indexing 26 Marking text for an index 26 Specifying index tag information 26
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.
● XPress Tags codes for character and paragraph attributes must begin and end with angle brackets (< >). For example, the XPress Tags code for boldface text is . ● To combine character attribute codes, begin with a left angle bracket, then enter the codes you want to specify, and complete the code with a right angle bracket. For example, the code for bold italic text is .
Character and Paragraph Formatting When you specify type styles using XPress Tags codes,
always sets the type style to Plain. When you specify any other type style (for example, for Bold), that style is applied if it isn’t already specified, and is removed if it has been specified. For example, the first time you specify , the Bold type style is applied to the text that follows. If you enter again, the Bold type style is not applied to the text that follows.
● Underline: ● Word Underline: ● Strikethrough: ● Double Strikethrough: ● Outline: ● Shadow: ● All Caps: ● Small Caps: ● Superscript: <+> ● Subscript: <-> (hyphen) ● Superior: ● Change Font ● Change Font Size ● Change Color*: or ● Change Shade ● Horizontal Scale ● Vertical Scale ● Kern ● Track ● Sending : Same tag as tracking but with a value in points added to the end ● Baseline Shift ● L
● Keep Half Width Characters Upright (a character attribute used only in vertical stories): , where = sideways, = upright, and = revert to style sheet ● Emphasis Mark : , where n is the emphasis mark ● Apply Sending to Non-CJK characters : to turn on, to turn it off, or to use the current style sheet setting When any of these commands is followed by a$ (for example, ), the attributes are set to the values specified in the current character style sheet.
● German (Swiss Reformed): ● German (Swiss): ● Greek: ● Hungarian: ● Icelandic: ● Italian: ● Japanese: ● Korean: ● Latvian: ● Lithuanian: ● Norwegian (Bokmal): ● Norwegian (Nynorsk): ● Polish: ● Portuguese (Brazilian): ● Portuguese (European): ● Romanian: ● Russian: ● Slovak: ● Slovenian: ● Spanish: ● Swedish: ● Turkish: ● Ukrainian:
● Kannada: ● Gujarati: ● Marathi: ● Assamese: Rubi text Rubi text lets you annotate base characters with smaller rubi characters. 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. Rubi text tags use the following form:
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: )> The contents of this tag are as follows: ● enclos
OpenType attributes Turn on/off styling is similar to the current method used for type styles. Respecifying a tag toggles the current state of the attribute. An asterisk in the topics below indicates a glyph attribute. The format for applying glyph attributes is: 0, where DoO = opening tag, F"zero" = feature, I0 = glyph index (where I0 = the first glyph), f"AcaslonPro-Bold" = font, 0 = base character, and oC = close tag.
● Superscript: sups ● Swash: swsh ● Titling Alternates: titl ● Tabular Figures: tnum ● Proportional Figures: pnum ● Slashed Zero: zero ● Vertical Kana Alternates : vkna ● Small Capitals from Capitals: c2sc ● Case Sensitive Forms: case ● Capital Spacing: cpsp ● Historical Ligatures: hlig ● Petite Capitals: pcap ● Alternative Fractions : afrc ● Stylistic Set 0: ss00 ● Stylistic Set 1: ss01 ● Stylistic Set 2: ss02 ● Stylistic Set 3: ss03 ● Stylistic Set 4: ss04 ● Stylistic
● Stylistic Set 17: ss17 ● Stylistic Set 18: ss18 ● Stylistic Set 19: ss19 ● Stylistic Set 20: ss20 ● Stylistic Set 21: ss21 ● Stylistic Set 22: ss22 ● Stylistic Set 23: ss23 ● Stylistic Set 24: ss24 ● Stylistic Set 25: ss25 ● Stylistic Set 26: ss26 ● Stylistic Set 27: ss27 ● Stylistic Set 28: ss28 ● Stylistic Set 29: ss29 ● Stylistic Set 30: ss30 ● Stylistic Set 31: ss31 ● Stylistic Set 32: ss32 ● Stylistic Set 33: ss33 This is a glyph attribute; see above.
● NLC Kanji Forms ● Simplified Forms : smpl ● Traditional Forms : trad ● Traditional Name Forms : nick : tnam This is a glyph attribute; see above. 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.
specify other values at the beginning of a subsequent paragraph or until you enter codes that change the style sheet.
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.
● Keep Lines Together : <*ktA> or <*kt(#,#)> where kt = Keep Lines Together; A = All; #,# = Numbers of lines at Start of Paragraph, Number of Lines at End of Paragraph. To return to the setting used in the Normal style sheet, enter <*kt($)> ● Start Paragraph : <*ks1> where ks = Start Paragraph, 0 = Anywhere, 1 = In Next Column, 2 = In Next Box, 3 = On Next Page, 4 = On Next Odd Page, 5 = On Next Even Page. It is associated with Keep options. ● Hanging Character Set: <*s"Hanging Character Set Name">.
0 and 1), 1 is Restart numbering after Style (0= Level, 1= Style), 4 is Row index of Paragraph Style Sheet in Style pop up. If a $ replaces any or all format codes (for example, <*t$>), the current paragraph style sheet values are used. If a style sheet is not currently applied, the Normal style sheet is used. All numeric values in these two commands are measured in points.
#000\#005\#000\#000\#000s\#000o\#000m\#000e\#000 \#000)[2017]> where some is the deleted text #000s\#000o\#000m\#000e ● Note: where james is user name who inserted the note; Note text is the text within the note.
Style Sheets You can use XPress Tags to apply character style sheets and establish a relationship between paragraph and character style sheets. Defining style sheets Style sheet definitions may include paragraph attributes only, character attributes only, or both paragraph and character attributes.
attribute overrides. For example, applies the Normal character style sheet, erasing any existing character attributes. Applying a paragraph style sheet ● Apply Normal paragraph style sheet: @$:paragraph text ● Apply No Style paragraph style sheet: @:paragraph text ● Apply defined paragraph style sheet: @stylesheetname:paragraph text To apply the Normal style sheet (which had attributes defined in the QuarkXPress project) to a paragraph, begin the paragraph with the @$: code.
Additional XPress Tags for style sheets The possibility of a relationship between a character style sheet and a paragraph style sheet creates the need for additional XPress Tags. ● Set type style according to character attributes in the applied paragraph style sheet: <$> ● Set type style according to character attributes in the currently applied character style sheet: <$$> ● Set all character attributes according to character attributes in the applied paragraph style sheet.
Colors A non-process color needs to be accurately defined in order to be accurately interpreted upon import. For these colors, a definition is placed at the top of the XPress Tag file similar to style sheet definitions. Defining a custom color @colorname=[C]<"colorclass",colorspec> Where: colorname = name of the color [C] = denotes a custom color colorspec = "libraryname",S or P,#,"colorsubclass" #.##,#.##,#.##,#.##,#.##,#.
if colorclass = "DIC", "FOCALTONE", "PANTONE®…", "TOYO", "TRUMATCH" then colorspec = "libraryname",S or P,#,"colorsubclass",#.##,#.##,#.##,#.##,#.##,#.## Example1: @DIC 399p spotB=[C]<"DIC","DIC 399p",S,4,"CMYK",0.55,0.14,0.47,0> Example2: @PANTONE 259 HexC=[C]<"PANTONE® solid in hexachrome® coated","PANTONE 259 HC",S,4,"Hexachrome",0.4,1,0,0.25,0,0> if colorclass = "MULTI-INK", then colorspec = "colorname", "colorclass",I or C,#.##,# Where: I or C = the color is Ink alias or custom color.
Special Characters XPress Tags lets you specify character encoding and insert and manipulate special characters such as discretionary hyphens and non-breaking spaces. Encoding One of the following three extended character set indicators is automatically placed at the top of an XPress Tags file you create using the Save Text command (File menu).
● Tab: <\t> ● Standard space ● Em space ● En space ● 3-per-Em space : <\#> ● 4-per-Em space : <\$> ● 6-per-Em space : <\^> ● Thin space : <\[> ● Hair space : <\{> ● Zero width space ● Flexible space ● Figure space ● Punctuation space ● Word joiner: <\j> ● Ideographic space ● Indent Here: <\i> ● Em dash : <\_> ● En dash : <\a> ● Hyphen : <\-> ● Discretionary hyphen: <\h> ● Discretionary new line: <\d> ● New line: <\n> ● New column: <\c> ● New box: <\b>
● Next box page number: <\4> ● Conditional Style marker: <\r> ● Zero Width Joiner: ● Zero Width Non-Joiner: To define any space or hyphen as non-breaking, use the format: <\!><\!>. Example: <\!><\!-> or <\!><\!m>. Right Indent tab is defined as <\!><\t> ASCII codes Some word processing applications may require you to use the decimal ASCII codes to create XPress Tags for special characters. The XPress Tags code for these characters is <\#decimal value>.
Indexing You can import and export QuarkXPress index tags in XPress Tags format. The text might be tagged by writers or indexers using a word processing application, and then imported into QuarkXPress for layout purposes. Alternatively, the might be exported from QuarkXPress with index tags for editing. Marking text for an index The XPress Tags for indexing let you insert index markers at the text insertion point or specify ranges of text to be indexed.
● Selection Start: 0 ● Selection Text: 1 ● To Style: style sheet name ● Specified # of ¶s: Number of paragraphs ● Suppress Page #: 0 ● To End Of: 0,1 (Story = 0, Layout = 1) ● Suppress Page #: 0 ● Cross-Reference: 0 1,2 (See = 0, See also = 1, See herein = 2) Quark is the basis for content creation, automation and intelligence. Since 1981, the company has been a pioneer in graphic design, digital publishing and content automation.
