Use custom tags for direct text formatting, or to construct paragraph and character styles. Custom tags provide centralized management of typographical characteristics.

Define custom tags in the EdAdmin4, and then type them into the text, or apply by hot-keys.

Custom tags behave in the same way as built-in GNML tags, with the difference that they're created and maintained either by Miles 33 or by a newspaper staff, and that they're available only if the format which contains them, is assigned to the text.

Custom tags are collections of built-in GNML tags and/or other custom tags. An user-defined GNML tag may contain any number of built-in GNML tags and other user- defined GNML tags, therefore, may set more than one typographical characteristics of the text at once. Custom tags may have 0, or 1-10 parameters.

For example, the user-defined GNML tag >hld 12pt< corresponds to built-in GNML tags >h 12pt<>ld 12pt<

The custom tags are stored in libraries as 'hidden' GNML styles. Being hidden, they cannot be accessed through style palettes in the Text editor Ted4 and Page Editor Fred4, but can be applied by typing tags or by Scripts.

Custom tags are created in the EdAdmin4. Custom tags are created and edited during the installation period or later. The custom tags are stored in libraries of styles and formats. Create custom tags in GNML libraries of styles.

The custom tags must not be renamed or removed if already used in any text in the database (no automatic check/warning is available, though). The names of tags must not be the same as the names of the built-in GNML tags or variables, and must be unique on the level of the style library and the format.

The custom tags are available in a text, only if the format, that contains them, is assigned to a text.

See also

Using custom tags for centralized management of typography

User-defined Tags