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A Guide to XPress Tags 2023 | 2

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 <B>.

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 <BI>.

XPress Tags codes for character attributes must be placed immediately●

preceding the characters to which you want to apply the attributes. When

you apply a character attribute using an XPress Tags code, the attribute

remains in effect until you cancel it or until you enter codes that change the

style sheet. You can cancel an attribute by re-specifying its code following

the last character to which 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($,$,$,$,18,$,$,$,$,$($,$))>.

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.