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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. If
you specify a hyphenation and justification specification in XPress Tags and
QuarkXPress cannot locate the specification in the project’s list of
hyphenation and justification specifications, the Standard hyphenation and
justification specification is substituted. The maximum length for the names
of style sheets and of hyphenation and justification specifications is 63
characters.
Paragraph Rule Above : <*ra(##,#,"color name",#,##,##,## or ##%)>. ●
Values in parentheses represent Width, Style, “color name”, Shade, From Left,
From Right, and Offset. Enter rule widths and indents in points. You can enter
“T“ in front of the left indent value to base rule length on the first line of text.
Rules Style options are 0 for Solid, 1 for Dotted, 2 for Dotted 2, 3 for Dash
Dot, 4 for All Dots, 5 for Double, 6 for Thin-Thick, 7 for Thick-Thin, 8 for Thin-
Thick-Thin, 9 for Thick-Thin-Thick, and 10 for Triple. Shade is a percentage.
You can specify a rule’s offset value in points or as a percentage (#%). For
example, <*ra(4,5,"Blue",100,T12,12,50%)> would format a Rule Above 4 points
wide in the Double style, 100% Blue, indented 12 points From Left and From
Right (based on the first line of text), and Offset 50%.
Paragraph Rule Below : <*ra(##,#,"color name",#,##,##,## or ##%)>. ●
Values in parentheses represent Width, Style, “color name”, Shade, From Left,
From Right, and Offset. Enter rule widths and indents in points. You can enter
“T“ in front of the left indent value to base rule length on the first line of text.
Rules Style options are 0 for Solid, 1 for Dotted, 2 for Dotted 2, 3 for Dash
Dot, 4 for All Dots, 5 for Double, 6 for Thin-Thick, 7 for Thick-Thin, 8 for Thin-
Thick-Thin, 9 for Thick-Thin-Thick, and 10 for Triple. Shade is a percentage.
You can specify a rule’s offset value in points or as a percentage (#%). For
example, <*rb(2,0,C,50,6,18,30%)> would format a Rule Below 2 points wide in
the Solid style, 50% Cyan, indented 6 points From Left and 18 points From
Right, and Offset 30%.
Drop Caps : <*d(#,#)> where d = Drop Caps, #,# = Character Count, Line ●
Count.
Keep with Next Paragraph : <*kn1> or <*kn0> where kn = Keep with ●
Next Paragraph; 1 = allow keep with next paragraph; 0 = do not keep with
next paragraph