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• To combine character attribute codes, begin with a left angle bracket, then enter the codes
you want to specify, and complete the code with a right angle bracket. For example, the
code for bold italic text is <BI>.
• XPress Tags codes for character attributes must be placed immediately preceding the
characters to which you want to apply the attributes. When you apply a character attribute
using an XPress Tags code, the attribute remains in effect until you cancel it or until you
enter codes that change the style sheet. You can cancel an attribute by re-specifying its
code following the last character to which you want it applied (or for type styles, you can
enter the code for plain text, <P>).
• 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.
• For XPress Tags code commands that let you specify more than one value (such as paragraph
attributes), you can enter a $ in place of an actual value. When QuarkXPress encounters
a $ code, the program substitutes the value specified in the currently applied style sheet.
(If no style sheet is currently applied, the value of the Normal style sheet is used.) For
example, you might want a paragraph to contain all of the formats specified in the applied
style sheet, but you want to apply 18 points of leading instead of the value specified in
the style sheet. The code for this would be: <*p($,$,$,18,$,$,$)>.
• 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.
• You can define a style sheet's character and paragraph attributes using XPress Tags codes.
To define a style sheet using XPress Tags codes, begin the paragraph with the code:
@stylesheetname=<paragraph attribute and character attribute codes>;
for example, @Body Text=[Sp"","Normal","Normal"]
<*L*AL*h"Standard"*s"None"*kn0*kt0*ra0*rb0*d0*p(0,0,0,0,0,0,g(P,S))
Ps100p100t0Y1h100z12k0b0cKf"Helvetica"n0o("Calt","liga","locl")L0G0>.
• When you are defining a style sheet for a project, you have the option of basing that style
sheet on another, existing style sheet. The code for this is @stylesheetname=[S"existing
stylesheetname"]<definition of style sheet>.
• 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.
• Hyphenation and justification specifications must already exist within the QuarkXPress
project before you import tagged text that specifies them. If you specify a hyphenation
and justification specification in XPress Tags and QuarkXPress cannot locate the
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UNDERSTANDING XPRESS TAGS