Quark XPress Tags 2016 User Manual
A Guide to XPress Tags 2016
CONTENTS
Contents
Understanding XPress Tags.........................................................4
Importing tagged text......................................................................................4
Generating tagged text in another application.................................................4
General information on XPress tags.................................................................4
Character and paragraph formatting...........................................6
Character attributes..........................................................................................6
Languages.................................................................................................................7
Rubi text....................................................................................................................8
Group characters.......................................................................................................9
Font sets....................................................................................................................9
OpenType attributes...............................................................................................10
Paragraph attributes.......................................................................................12
Other attributes..............................................................................................14
Turn on/off styling...........................................................................................15
Revert styling to style sheets..........................................................................15
Style sheets................................................................................16
Defining style sheets.......................................................................................16
Applying style sheets......................................................................................16
Applying a paragraph style sheet...........................................................................17
Applying a character style sheet.............................................................................17
Additional XPress Tags for style sheets..........................................................17
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.....................................................................................................22
Indexing......................................................................................24
Marking text for an index...............................................................................24
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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
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different encoding, choose an option from the Encoding drop-down menu.
To convert XPress Tags codes into actual character attributes and paragraph formats,
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check 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:
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• 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($,$,$,18,$,$,$)>.
• 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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*When any of these commands is followed by a $ (for example, <f$>), the attributes
are set to the values specified in the current character style sheet. If a character style
sheet is not currently applied, the Normal style sheet is used. (A # character in this
list indicates a numeric value.)
†This feature is available only in particular language editions of QuarkXPress. However,
you can import and export text that uses this features in XPress Tags format using any
language edition of QuarkXPress.
Languages
You can apply the following languages with the <n##> character tag.
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Emphasis marks†: <Mn>, where n is the emphasis mark
Apply sending to non-CJK characters†: <Y1> to turn on, <Y0> to turn it off, or
<Y$> to use the current style sheet setting
None: <n254>
Bulgarian: <n72>
Catalan: <n73>
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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Ukranian: <n62>
Rubi text
Rubi text lets you annotate base characters with smaller rubi characters. 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.
Rubi text tags use the following form:
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