Useful Quark Xpress Information

Tags list

QuarkTagsList: a rough list of common tags used: - it is slightly out of date....

Hyphens and spaces

How to force non-breaking words (for instance so headlines don't hyphenate)

Either - call a HnJ in your style sheet in which hyphenation is turned off - sadly this needs to be set through the Quark Interface, so needs to be set on the page first. You cannot define the HnJ settings with tags ... only call them.

OR -- add a discretionary hyphen at the front of a word you do not want to break (perhaps everyword in a headline) ...

This can be done by inserting cmd-hyphen at the front of the word, or in Quark Tags, adding <\h>

@$:Here is a breaking word <\h>antidisestablishmentarianism

How to force a 'preferred' hyphenation point.

Use a discretionary hyphen in the word, placed at the preferred hyphenation point - so if you prefer anti-disestablishmentarionism to antidisestablish-mentarionism, try

anti<\h>disestablishmentarionism

Non-breaking hyphens

Used in words that are hyphenate, but that you do not want to break - say to keep: Hugh-Jones on one line ..

Use cmd-= when typing the hyphen, or <\!> in Quark Tags.

@$:Non<\!->breaking hyphen

Non-breaking spaces

Use cmd-space when typing the space.

@$:Non<\!s>breaking<\!s>space

Note - forcing a lot of non-breaking spaces can force all your copy into overmatter - if Xpress can't work out a place to break the copy, it justs forces it all into overmatter,

Funny Characters

• Bullet = octal-245 (\245)
• Non-breaking space <\s>
• Non-breaking hyphen <!->
• discretionary hyphen <\h>
• soft return <\n>

What makes tag import (cmd-E) break - bad tags

• Have no tage extension - so cannot interpret the tags
• have not checked the 'import as tags' check box on the import window
• Have a bad tag
  • spurious < or > in the text ...
  • wrong line endings. Noite this can get confusing as some afp servers such as ethershare clever;y interpret and convert line endings on the fly: this means that line endings are not consistent from site to site. Always test.

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