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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 attribute overrides. For example, <x@$>
applies the Normal character style sheet, erasing any existing character attributes.
Applying a paragraph style sheet
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Apply Normal paragraph style sheet: @$:paragraph text
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Apply No Style paragraph style sheet: @:paragraph text
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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 @$: code.
To specify that a specific style sheet be applied to a paragraphs, begin the paragraph with
the @stylesheetname: code.
To specify that No Style be applied to paragraphs, begin the first paragraph you want to
disassociate from any style sheet with the @: code.
When you apply a style sheet to a paragraph using XPress Tags, the style sheet remains
applied to subsequent paragraphs until another style sheet is applied or until No Style is
applied using the @: code.
You can apply attributes to characters (local formatting) within a paragraph to which you
have applied a style sheet. These attributes remain applied until you cancel them or until
you apply a different style sheet.
If you import text tagged with style sheet names that the project already contains,
QuarkXPress automatically applies the character and paragraph attributes specified in the
project's existing style sheets. If you import text tagged with style sheet names that do not
already exist in the project, QuarkXPress adds each style sheet name to the Style Sheets
palette. If a new style sheet is not defined in the tagged text, QuarkXPress applies the
Normal paragraph and character style sheet attributes to the new style sheet and adds the
paragraph style sheet to the Style Sheets palette.
The following characters cannot be used in style sheet names: " : = @
Applying a character style sheet
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Apply Normal character style sheet: <@$>
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Apply the paragraph's character style sheet: <@$p>
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Apply No Style character style sheet: <@>
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Apply defined character style sheet: <@stylesheetname>
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