II. DATAformTags
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Developer handbook DATAformXTension © 1992-2004 www.gassenhuber.de
The picture is adjusted proportionally to the box. Before trying place the picture “DATAform-
Logo” in your QuarkXPress folder.
Anchoring in chained boxes
If the destination box is chained to other boxes, the first box of the chain must precede the
anchored boxes. With chained boxes the destination box is always the first box of the chain.
The entire text of the chain is also transferred with this box.
Tip: If you create very long chains with many anchored boxes, switch on Off-screen drawing in
the QuarkXPress preferences.
Update anchored boxes
Anchored boxes may be updated individually as if they were independent boxes.
Create both following boxes:
¶*T3*x0*y500*X120*Y650*39*F1*#1520*$ This is the text in which a text box will be
anchored. The text box should be anchored at this position:
{{1521}}.¶*T3*X70*Y42*A1520*#1521*$the text in the anchored text box¶
Then copy the following text and choose the command “update contents”:
¶*T3*X70*Y42*#1521*$new text¶
The anchored box receives a new text.
{67} *a Anchor: align with text
[0;1]
This Tag defines the text alignment of an anchored box. There are two possibilities:
*a0 or missing Tag
align to baseline
*a1
align to ascent
The following text with DATAformTags creates the same box as in the previous examples, but
the anchored box is aligned to ascent:
¶*T3*x0*y500*X120*Y650*39*F1*#1522*$This is the text in which a text box will be
anchored. At this position:{{1523}} the text box should be anchored .¶*a1*T3*X70*Y42
*A1522*#1523*$Text in the anchored box¶
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