Global formatting may include character and paragraph formatting settings. However, not all character nor paragraph formatting may be globalized.
Character formatting that may be globalized includes:
| font and size: | font, size, horizontal scale |
| type style: | bold, italic, bold italic, blind, underline, small caps, lowercase, uppercase, color and tint |
| specials: | hyphenation rules, underline |
Paragraph formatting that may be globalized includes:
| basic: | leading, lock to baseline grid |
| vertical position | variable space above paragraph |
| horizontal position | indents: first, left and right |
| justification | hyphenation status, words spaceband, column width |
| specials: | orphan control, indivisible paragraph |
Globalizable formatting includes the following typographical attributes:
| >arl M1,M2,N1,M3,M4,N2,N3< | area fill, underlines |
| >co N< | selection of color |
| >dropc I1,I2,I3,M1,M2,M3,I4,N< | drop capital |
| >ehyp I< | enable hyphenation |
| >eld M1,M2,M3< | variable space above paragraph |
| >grid M1,M2< | lock to baseline grid |
| >hyp N< | hyphenation selection |
| >is M,I< | indent on the first line |
| >kn I< | indivisible paragraph |
| >pac< | centred alignment of paragraph(c) |
| >pal< | left alignment of paragraph(c) |
| >par< | right alignment of paragraph |
| >paj< | justified alignment of paragraph |
| >qc< | centred alignment of the last line. |
| >ql< | left alignment of the last line. |
| >qr< | right alignment of the last line. |
| >qj< | justified alignment of the last line. |
| >q I1,I2< | alignment of the last line. |
| >slant I< | Electronic italics. |
| >small I< | enable small caps and uppercases |
| >spb I1,I2,I3< | moving space |
| >w M< | the character's base |
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