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Alternate metrics
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Full Widths†: fwid
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Half Widths†: hwid
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Third Widths†: twid
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Quarter Widths†: qwid
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Proportional Widths†: pwid
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Alternate Vertical Metrics†: valt
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Proportional Alternate Widths†: palt
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Proportional Alternate Vertical Metrics†: vpal
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Alternate Half Widths†: halt
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Alternate Vertical Half Metrics†: vhal
*This is a glyph attribute; see above.
†This feature can be applied only in a language edition of QuarkXPress that supports
East Asian features.
Paragraph attributes
XPress Tags codes for paragraph attributes must be placed at the beginning of a
paragraph. Formats specified by XPress Tags codes remain applied until you specify
other values at the beginning of a subsequent paragraph or until you enter codes that
change the style sheet.
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Left-align paragraph : <*L>
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Center-align paragraph : <*C>
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Right-align paragraph : <*R>
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Justify paragraph : <*J>
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Force justify paragraph : <*F>
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Set tab stops* : <*t(##.#,#,"1 or 2 characters")>. Values in parentheses
represent Position (in points), Alignment, and Fill Characters. For no fill
characters, enter a 1 followed by two spaces. For 1 fill character, enter a 1 followed
by the repeat character (enter the character twice). For 2 fill characters, enter a 2
followed by the alternating characters. Alignment options are 0 for Left, 1 for
Center, 2 for Right, 4 for Decimal, 5 for Comma, and any printing character (in
quotation marks) for Align On. Note: Reverting text to the Normal style sheet
does not revert the alignment to the alignment specified in the Normal style
sheet. Instead, you must specify the new alignment in addition to reapplying the
Normal style sheet. All of the tabs for a paragraph are included, separated by
commas, within the parentheses.
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Set paragraph attributes*: <*p(##.#,##.#,##.#,##.#,##.#,##.#,G or g(P,
S))>. Values in parentheses represent Left Indent, First Line Indent, Right
Indent, Leading, Space Before, Space After, and Lock to Grid. For example,
<*p(16,36,16,14,9,18,g)> would format text that has a 16 point Left Indent,
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