Paragraph formatting includes:
| basic: | leading, lock to baseline grid |
| vertical position | space above and below paragraph, variable space above paragraph, top compensation, area jump |
| horizontal position | indents: first, left and right, left and right floating alignment of paragraph |
| justification | hyphenation status, words spaceband, column width |
| specials: | drop capital, area and character fill, orphan control, indivisible paragraph, shrink/stretch, globalization of typographical status |
Paragraph formatting may also include character formatting tags:
| font and size: | font, size, horizontal scale |
| type style: | bold, italic, bold italic, blind, underline, small caps, lowercase, uppercases, color and tint |
| position: | baseline offset, vertical offset, tracking, character left and right shift |
| specials: | hyphenation rules, line fill, inline graphics |
Paragraph type built-in GNML tags:
| >a M< | fixed space above paragraph (c) |
| >arl M1,M2,N1,M3,M4,N2,N3< | area fill, underlines (c) |
| >bld M< | fixed space below paragraph (c) |
| >default< | globalisation of typographical status (c) |
| >dropc I1,I2,I3,M1,M2,M3,I4,N< | drop capital (c) |
| >ehyp I< | enable hyphenation (c) |
| >eld M1,M2,M3< | variable space above paragraph (c) |
| >fill N,M1,M2,M3,I< | character fill (c) |
| >grid M1,M2< | lock to baseline grid (c) |
| >is M,I< | indent on the first line (c) |
| >itl I< | left floating indent (c) |
| >itr I< | right floating indent (c) |
| >kn I< | indivisible paragraph (c) |
| >lines I1,I2,I3,I4< | shrink/stretch (c) |
| >pac< | centred alignment of paragraph(c) |
| >pal< | left alignment of paragraph(c) |
| >par< | right alignment of paragraph (c) |
| >paj< | justified alignment of paragraph (c) |
| >pa I1,I2< | align variable (c) |
| >spb I1,I2,I3< | moving space (c) |
| >ta M< | top compensation (c) |
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