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Style sheets
You can use XPress Tags to apply character style sheets and establish a relationship between
paragraph and character style sheets.
DEFINING STYLE SHEETS
Style sheet definitions may include paragraph attributes only, character attributes only,
or both paragraph and character attributes.
• Define paragraph style sheet with default character attributes:
@stylesheetname=[Sp"",""] <paragraph and character attributes> (Hard
Return) For example, @Paragraph1=[Sp"",""]<*L*h"Standard"
*kn0*kt0*ra0*rb0*d0*p(0,0,0,0,0,0,g(B,S))
PBs100t0h100z14k0b0c"Red"f"Times-Roman">
•
Define character style sheet: @stylesheetname=<character attributes>(Hard
Return) For example, @Char1=<Ps100t–3h100z10k0b0cK f"Palatino-Roman">
• Define paragraph style sheet with character style sheet:
@stylesheetname=[Sp"","","character stylesheetname"]<paragraph
attributes>(Hard Return) For example,
@Paragraph1=[Sp"","Paragraph1","Char1"]
<*L*h"Standard"*kn0*kt0*ra0*rb0*d0*p(0,0,0,0,0,0,g(B,S))>
• Base one paragraph style sheet on another, and apply Next Style:
@stylesheetname=[Sp"based on paragraph stylesheetname","next
paragraphstylesheetname","character stylesheetname"]<paragraph
attributes>(Hard Return) For example, @Paragraph2=[Sp"Paragraph1",
"Paragraph3","Char1"]<*t(121,1, "1."227,1,"1 ")>
•
Base one character style sheet on another: @stylesheetname=[St"","","","based
on character stylesheetname"] <character attributes>(Hard Return) For
example, @Char2=[St"","","","Char1"] <PBf"ArialMT">
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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