QuarkXPress Settings

Common page

Available options are:

Remove soft returns (remove or convert to tag)

If you choose to remove soft returns, they are converted to spaces or ignored where an adjacent character is a space. If you do not remove them, they are converted to the <\n> tags.

Note that other file types have different options for soft returns.

Remove optional (discretionary) hyphens

The placement of discretionary hyphens is dependent on the structure and pronunciation of words in the source language, so usually you should choose to remove rather than extract them.

Convert character entity tags

If this option is selected, the character entities that have a Unicode character are replaced by that character, and other character entities are converted to standalone tags.

If this option is not selected, the characters that are listed here are represented by the listed tags and other character entities are converted to standalone tags.

<\[> thin space
<\{> hair space
<\z> zero width space
<\8> figure space
<\p> punctuation space
<\_> em dash
<\!-> non-breaking hyphen
<\!s> non-breaking space
<\m> em space
<\e> en space
<\j> word joiner
<\5> three-per-em space
<\$> four-per-em space
<\^> six-per-em space

Remove kerning and tracking

Kerning and tracking information applied to source text is usually too closely aligned to the source language text layout to be useful for the translated text, so usually you should not process these tags.

If you do process these tags, then kerning tags are represented by <k...> tags , and tracking tags by <t...> tags.

Note: Even if you choose to skip them, where those tags are combined with other tags, the information is represented in tags in the target document.