Formatting tags

[brechtn@adobeforums.com]

Hi everyone
as an assignment in school I have to make a booklet in Indesign or Quark
we have to preformat our text in a text editor and add tags so the program can auto assign the style sheets. This works in quark xpress but I refuse to use that shit for the simple reason that it's crap.
So what I need is a list of tags and an explaination on how I should make them. It would be a great help
thx

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

No matter how bad you might think QuarkXPress is, kindly behave yourself in this forum. I have edited your message to render it acceptable.

Your question also doesn't make any sense. What is a formatting tag in your mind? It curely isn't something that we talk much about here in the context that you appear to be using.

Dave

[brechtn@adobeforums.com]

ok
i'm sorry dave
what i mean by formating is
when you put curtain tags in an
ascii files and then you paste it in inDesign the program recognizes them and adds paragrafh or letter styles to the text.
in quark they look like this: <@text> or @text:

please help me out, I have to hand in by monday
and I'm 8 hours ahead because I live in Belgium

thx

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Ah, for some reason, I misread your message (must have been hung up on your choice of words) -- yes, InDesign does have a tagging language of that sort. it's not the same as Quark's, but similar in concept.

The easiest way to come to grips with it is to format a story and then export it as tagged text. Choose the abbreviated format and then study the result in a text editor.

I believe there is a spec document somewhere (perhaps on the CD), but I'm not sure.

Dave

[JohnO@adobeforums.com]

I never thought of that...Write up the text in ID, apply styles, then export
it. Voila, an importable text file with tags. :-)

John O