2022

A Guide to XPress Tags 2022 | 18
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: @paragraph ●
stylesheetname=[Sp"",""] <paragraph and character attributes> (Hard Return)
For example,
@Paragraph1=[Sp"","11"]<*L*AL*h"Standard"*s"None"*m"None"*bn(7.2,1,0)*kn0*
kt0*ks0*ra0*rb0*d0*p(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,-
1,0,g(P,S))Ps100p100t0Y1h100z12k0b0cKf"Helvetica"n0o("Calt","liga","locl")L0G
0>
Define character style sheet: @character stylesheetname=<character ●
attributes>(Hard Return) For example,
@Character1=Ps100p100t0Y1h100z12k0b0cKf"Helvetica"n0o("Calt","liga","locl")
L0G0>
Define paragraph style sheet with character style sheet: @paragraph ●
stylesheetname=[Sp"","paragraph stylesheetname","character
stylesheetname"]<paragraph attributes>(Hard Return) For example,
@Paragraph1=[Sp"","Paragraph1","Character1"]
<*L*AL*h"Standard"*s"None"*m"None"*bn(7.2,1,0)*kn0*kt0*ks0*ra0*rb0*d0*p(0
,0,0,0,0,0,0,-1,0,g(P,S))>
Base one paragraph style sheet on another paragraph style sheet, and apply ●
Next Style paragraph style sheet: @paragraph stylesheetname=[Sp"based on
paragraph stylesheetname","next paragraph stylesheetname","character
stylesheetname"]<paragraph attributes>(Hard Return) For example,
@Paragraph2=[Sp"Paragraph1","Paragraph3","Character1"]<>
Base one character style sheet on another character style sheet: ●
@stylesheetname=[St"","","","based on character stylesheetname"] <character
attributes>(Hard Return) For example, @Character2=[St"","","","Character1"]<>
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