Quark QuarkXPress - 8.0 User Manual
A Guide to XPress Tags 8
CONTENTS
Contents
Legal notices.....................................................................................4
Understanding XPress Tags..............................................................5
Importing tagged text............................................................................................5
Generating tagged text in another application......................................................5
General information on XPress tags.......................................................................5
Character and paragraph formatting................................................8
Character attributes................................................................................................8
Languages.......................................................................................................................9
Rubi text........................................................................................................................10
Group characters...........................................................................................................10
Font sets........................................................................................................................11
OpenType attributes.....................................................................................................11
Paragraph attributes.............................................................................................13
Other attributes....................................................................................................14
Turn on/off styling................................................................................................14
Revert styling to style sheets...............................................................................14
Style sheets.....................................................................................16
Defining style sheets.............................................................................................16
Applying style sheets............................................................................................16
Applying a paragraph style sheet.................................................................................16
Applying a character style sheet...................................................................................17
Additional XPress Tags for style sheets...............................................................17
Colors..............................................................................................18
Defining a custom color........................................................................................18
Detailed Custom Color Definition.................................................................................18
Applying a custom color.......................................................................................19
Special characters............................................................................20
Encoding...............................................................................................................20
Escaped characters...............................................................................................20
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Other special characters.......................................................................................20
ASCII codes...........................................................................................................21
Indexing..........................................................................................22
Marking text for an index.....................................................................................22
Specifying index tag information..........................................................................22
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LEGAL NOTICES
Legal notices
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laws. Quark, the Quark logo, QuarkXPress and XTensions are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Quark, Inc. and its affiliates in the U.S. and/or other countries. Mac is a
trademark of Apple, Inc. Unicode is a trademark of Unicode, Inc. Windows and OpenType
are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries. All other marks are the property of their respective owners.
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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.
UNDERSTANDING XPRESS TAGS
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.
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>.
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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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specification in the project's list of hyphenation and justification specifications, the
Standard hyphenation and justification specification is substituted.
• The maximum length for the names of style sheets and of hyphenation and justification
specifications is 63 characters.
•
The following characters cannot be used in style sheet names: " : = @.
• 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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