Quark QuarkXPress - 10.0 User Manual
A Guide to XPress Tags 10
CONTENTS
Contents
Understanding XPress Tags..............................................................4
Importing tagged text............................................................................................4
Generating tagged text in another application......................................................4
General information on XPress tags.......................................................................5
Character and paragraph formatting................................................6
Character attributes................................................................................................6
Languages.......................................................................................................................7
Rubi text..........................................................................................................................9
Group characters.............................................................................................................9
Font sets........................................................................................................................10
OpenType attributes.....................................................................................................10
Paragraph attributes.............................................................................................12
Other attributes....................................................................................................15
Turn on/off styling................................................................................................15
Revert styling to style sheets...............................................................................15
Style sheets.....................................................................................16
Defining style sheets.............................................................................................16
Applying style sheets............................................................................................17
Applying a paragraph style sheet.................................................................................17
Applying a character style sheet...................................................................................17
Additional XPress Tags for style sheets...............................................................18
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...........................................................................................................23
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Indexing..........................................................................................24
Marking text for an index.....................................................................................24
Specifying index tag information..........................................................................24
Legal notices...................................................................................26
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UNDERSTANDING XPRESS TAGS
Understanding XPress Tags
With XPress Tags Filter XTensions® software, you can use plain text files to import and
export text into QuarkXPress® layouts with paragraph and character attributes already
applied. Because the plain text file format doesn't actually support attributes, the formatting
is indicated with codes that are translated by the XPress Tags filter. As new character and
paragraph formatting options are added to QuarkXPress, new XPress Tags codes are added
to support the new attributes.
Importing tagged text
To import a plain text file that contains embedded XPress Tags codes:
Choose File > Import.
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Select the target XPress tags file.
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The application attempts to detect the encoding of the XPress Tags file. To specify a different
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encoding, choose an option from the Encoding drop-down menu.
To convert XPress Tags codes into actual character attributes and paragraph formats, check
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Interpret XPress Tags in the Import Text dialog box. If you do not check Interpret XPress
Tags in the Import Text dialog box before importing tagged text, QuarkXPress does not
convert XPress Tags codes. Instead, the program imports the codes as text characters.
Generating tagged text in another application
To include XPress Tags information in a text file that you created in another application,
precede the text with the codes you want. Begin the text file with a version code and
encoding indication (for example: <v8.00><e9>). For more information about encoding
codes, see "Encoding."
Save the text you generate in the plain text file format using the appropriate encoding.
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General information on XPress tags
When entering XPress Tags codes, keep the following in mind:
• XPress Tags codes are case-sensitive.
• XPress Tags codes for character and paragraph attributes must begin and end with angle
brackets (< >). For example, the XPress Tags code for boldface text is <B>.
• 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>).
• 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($,$,$,18,$,$,$)>.
UNDERSTANDING XPRESS TAGS
• Names you specify as XPress Tags codes must be preceded and terminated by an inch mark
" character. For example, if you want to specify the font Palatino, use the <f"Palatino">
code.
• When specifying a font using XPress Tags codes, you can enter a partial font name within
the code (for example, you can enter helv to specify the font Helvetica). When QuarkXPress
applies a font to imported text according to the XPress Tags code you specify, the
application will apply the first font in the Font submenu that matches the partial font
name.
• Some features (such as rubi text, group characters, and emphasis marks) are available only
in particular language editions of QuarkXPress. However, you can open a project that uses
such features in any edition of QuarkXPress, and you can import and export text that uses
these features in XPress Tags format using any language edition of QuarkXPress.
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CHARACTER AND PARAGRAPH FORMATTING
Character and paragraph formatting
When you specify type styles using XPress Tags codes, <P> always sets the type style to
Plain. When you specify any other type style (for example, <B> for Bold), that style is
applied if it isn't already specified, and is removed if it has been specified. For example,
the first time you specify <B>, the Bold type style is applied to the text that follows. If you
enter <B> again, the Bold type style is not applied to the text that follows. If you enter
<$>, the type style is set to the one specified in the current style sheet. If a style sheet is
not currently applied, the Normal style sheet is used.
Character attributes
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Plain: <P>
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Bold: <B>
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Italic: <I>
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Outline: <O>
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Shadow: <S>
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Underline: <U>
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Word Underline: <W>
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Strikethrough: </>
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Double Strikethrough: <R>
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All Caps: <K>
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Small Caps: <H>
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Superscript: <+>
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Subscript: <-> (hyphen)
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Superior: <V>
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Change font*: <f"font name">
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Change font size*: <z###.##> in points
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Change color*: <c"color name"> or <cC, cM, cY, cK, and cW>
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Change shade*: <s###.#> in percentage of shade
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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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English (US): <n0>
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Estonian: <n44>
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Finnish: <n17>
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French: <n1>
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German: <n3>
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German (Reformed): <n70>
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German (Swiss Reformed): <n69>
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German (Swiss): <n19>
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Greek: <n20>
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Hungarian: <n43>
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Icelandic: <n21>
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Italian: <n4>
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Japanese: <n14>
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Korean: <n51>
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Latvian: <n45>
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Lithuanian: <n41>
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Norwegian (Bokmal): <n12>
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Norwegian (Nynorsk: <n80>
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Polish: <n42>
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Portuguese (Brazilian): <n71>
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Portuguese (European): <n10>
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Romanian: <n39>
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Russian: <n49>
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Slovak: <n57>
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Slovenian: <n66>
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Spanish: <n8>
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Swedish: <n7>
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Turkisn: <n24>
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