2023

A Guide to XPress Tags 2023 | 8
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:
<A(\#72ABC\#40<t–10h80>)>
The contents of this tag are as follows:
<A()> encloses the tag. ●
/#72 and /#40 mark the beginning and end of the grouped characters. ●
<t–10h80> are applications of tracking and horizontal scaling (see “Character ●
attributes“).
Font sets
Font sets let you specify a group of fonts to be applied to different types of text
in a text run. Like style sheet definitions, font set definitions are stored in XPress
Tags files. For example, if you export text that uses a font set named “Font set
1,” the definition of Font set 1 is exported in the form of a tag like the following,
at the beginning of the XPress Tag file:
@Font set 1=[F]<"HiraMinPro-W3",100,0,h100,"GrecoStd-DB",100,0,h100,
"Corbel",100,0,h100,"HiraMinPro-W3",89.999,-5,h105,"Times-Roman",100,0,h100>
<h105z10.89b-0.6f"HiraMinPro-W3",("Contest 1",12)>
The contents of this tag are as follows:
h105 = horizontal or vertical scaling (see “Character attributes“). ●
z10.8 = percentage of current font size ●
b-0.6 = baseline shift, in points ●
f"HiraMinPro-W3" = font ●
("Font set 1", 12) = name of the font set to be applied and current point size of ●
the font
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.