9.3

• Menus (Web layout only): Lets you create and manage lists, such as navigation menus, used
in Web layouts.
• Meta Tags (Web layout only): Lets you create, modify and access meta information, such
as keywords and descriptions, that provides information about that page for discovery by
search engines and other purposes.
• CSS Font Families (Web layout only): Lets you create font families for cascading style sheets
(CSS) and determine what fonts will be used to display a Web page if the original font is
not available to the user.
• Cascading Menus (Web layout only): Lets you create a hierarchical list of items that displays
when the end user moves the mouse pointer over an object. This simplifies a Web design
by "hiding" menu items until the user moves the mouse pointer over a specific item.
• Item Styles: Lets you add, edit, and delete item definitions that you can apply to
QuarkXPress items with the Item Styles palette (Window menu).
Style menu
The Style menu changes depending on whether a text box, a picture box, or a line is active.
Style menu for text
The Style menu for text includes commands for specifying character attributes and
paragraph formats. This menu includes the following commands:
• Font: Lets you change the font of selected text.
• Size: Lets you change the size of selected text.
• Type Style: Lets you apply type styles such as bold, italic, and underline to selected text.
• Change Case: Lets you change case of selected text to uppercase, lower case, or title case.
• Color: Lets you change the color of selected text.
• Shade: Lets you set the tint of an applied color.
• Opacity: Lets you control the transparency of selected text.
• Horizontal/Vertical Scale: Lets you stretch selected text horizontally or vertically.
• Kern/Track: When the text insertion point is between two characters, Kern lets you control
the spacing between those characters. When text is selected, Track lets you control the
spacing between all selected characters.
• Baseline Shift: Lets you move selected text up or down in relation to the baseline without
changing line spacing.
• Character: Displays the Character Attributes dialog box, which lets you control every
aspect of character formatting for selected text.
• Character Style Sheets: Lets you apply character style sheets to selected text.
• Text to Box: Lets you convert text to a Bézier picture box shaped like the selected characters.
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THE USER INTERFACE