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Understanding XPress Tags.........................................................4
Importing tagged text......................................................................................4
Generating tagged text in another application.................................................4
General information on XPress tags.................................................................4
Character and paragraph formatting...........................................6
Character attributes..........................................................................................6
Languages.................................................................................................................7
Rubi text....................................................................................................................8
Group characters.......................................................................................................9
Font sets....................................................................................................................9
OpenType attributes...............................................................................................10
Paragraph attributes.......................................................................................12
Other attributes..............................................................................................14
Turn on/off styling...........................................................................................15
Revert styling to style sheets..........................................................................15
Style sheets................................................................................16
Defining style sheets.......................................................................................16
Applying style sheets......................................................................................16
Applying a paragraph style sheet...........................................................................17
Applying a character style sheet.............................................................................17
Additional XPress Tags for style sheets..........................................................17
Colors.........................................................................................19
Defining a custom color...................................................................................19
Detailed Custom Color Definition...........................................................................19
Applying a custom color..................................................................................20
Special characters.......................................................................21
Encoding..........................................................................................................21
Escaped characters..........................................................................................21
Other special characters..................................................................................22
ASCII codes.....................................................................................................22
Indexing......................................................................................24
Marking text for an index...............................................................................24
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