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Horizontal scale*: <h###.#> in percentage of scale
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Kern*: <k###.##> in 1/200 em space
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Track*: <t###.##> in 1/200 em space
• Send†: Same tag as tracking but with a value in points added to the end
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Set baseline shift*: <b###.##> in points
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Vertical scale*: <y###.#> in percentage of scale
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Ligatures: <G1> to turn on, or <G0> to turn off
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Opacity*: <p###.#> in percentage of opacity
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OpenType: <o("xxxx")> where "xxxx" = the OpenType® feature code
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Language: <n##> (see "Languages")
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Character alignment†: <*An>, where n indicates the type of alignment; <AT>
= Em box top/right, <AO> = ICF top/right, <AC> = center, <AM> = ICF bottom/left,
<AB> = Em box bottom/left, <AL> = baseline†
• Keep half width characters upright† (a character attribute used only in vertical
stories): <Ln>, where <L0> = sideways, <L1> = upright, and <L$> = revert to style
sheet
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Emphasis marks†: <Mn>, where n is the emphasis mark
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Apply sending to non-CJK characters†: <Y1> to turn on, <Y0> to turn it off, or
<Y$> to use the current style sheet setting
*When any of these commands is followed by a $ (for example, <f$>), the attributes
are set to the values specified in the current character style sheet. If a character style
sheet is not currently applied, the Normal style sheet is used. (A # character in this
list indicates a numeric value.)
†This feature is available only in particular language editions of QuarkXPress. However,
you can import and export text that uses this features in XPress Tags format using any
language edition of QuarkXPress.
Languages
You can apply the following languages with the <n##> character tag.
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None: <n254>
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Bulgarian: <n72>
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Catalan: <n73>
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Chinese (Simplified): <n52>
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Chinese (Traditional): <n53>
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Croatian: <n68>
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Czech: <n56>
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Danish: <n9>
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Dutch: <n5>
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English (International): <n2>
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