Globalizable and global tags
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Global tags affect all the subsequent text, from the point where defined.
Some built-in tags are natively global, such as >m..< and >rem...<. Some other tags are globalizable, thus can become global if specified in string of tags before the tags >default<, >global< or >g<. Some tags are not globalizable.
Text formatting globalizable tags include:
Property |
Description |
font and size |
choice of font, type size, horizontal scale of characters |
type style |
bold, italic, small caps, all lowercases, all uppercases text color and tint |
leading |
fixed or variable leading lock to baseline grid |
vertical position |
baseline offset vertical offset variable space above top compensation |
horizontal position |
first, left, right indent alignment of paragraph and last line tracking |
justification |
hyphenation status words spaceband |
specials |
hyphenation rules drop capital area fill vertical and horizontal rules orphan control and indivisible paragraph shrink and stretch paragraph |
Global tags include column width >m..<; hidden text >rem 1<
Notes
•When a paragraph style is applied at the beginning of the text, only the format default settings 'compete' with the paragraph style. The rule is rather simple: whatever typographical characteristics is not explicitly specified within the paragraph style, will be used from the format defaults. For example, if the paragraph style does not contain the hyphenation status tag, the one from defaults is used. See Format Defaults for the list of settings that belong to format defaults.
•When a paragraph style is applied on the paragraph that is not the first one, the situation is potentially more complex. Not only the format default settings 'compete' with the paragraph style, but also all other globalized typographical settings, optionally present in the previous paragraphs text. The rule is rather simple: whatever typographical characteristics is not explicitly specified within the paragraph style, will be used from the format defaults or from globalized settings. For example, if the paragraph style does not contain tag for color setting >co..<, but in some previous paragraph, the magenta color was globalized, the current paragraph will be painted in magenta!