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VI. Appendix
Text with XPressTags
XPressTags describe the font and style properties of characters and the formatting of para-
graphs within text boxes. XPressTags are to be used whenever the text in a box should have
varying properties.
All paragraph properties may be transferred by style sheet calls, with the advantage of defining
or modifying all properties by the style sheet in QuarkXPress. Varying properties within a
paragraph can be transferred via character style sheets.
Spelling and functioning of XPressTags are described in detail
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in the QuarkXPress manuals and
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in the document XPress Tags ReadMe.pdf e.g. on DATAform CD.
To import or export text with XPressTags the XPressTags filter must be loaded.
Import
When importing text boxes XPressTags are applied if the Tag *F is set to *F2. (See under
{28} *F Font mode, page: 51)
If the text contains XPressTags, these are part of the text.
¶*T3*F2*$My <PI>box¶
creates a text box and sets the word “box” to italic:
The same result can be achieved with a character style sheet:
You create a character style sheet, i.e. with the name and property “italic” and call it as below:
¶*T3*F2*$My <@italic>box¶
If the XPressTags contain style sheet calls, the style sheets are applied to the text.
¶*T3*F2*$@Text:My <PB>text formatted as “Text”¶
creates a text box and attributes its content to the style sheet “Text”:
¶*T3*F2*$@Text:first line
@Text italic:second line ¶
Creates a text box and formats the first text line with the style sheet “Text”, the second text line
with the style sheet “text italic”:
My text format-
ted as “Text”
My box
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