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Chapter 5
Creating Boxes and Elements
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Example of a Two Box Approach with Relative
I thought this would be a good example to demonstrate rounded corners and
how to offset slightly using relative placement.
The approach to take on this box is to keep it to two boxes if possible.
When first looking at this, it appears that this will not be possible, but I assure you it is. The main thing to look for is what can be put into the style
sheets. That is always the best approach to reduce the number of boxes. With
this initially I see that the title’s bar can be built into the style sheet.
Here’s how the box will look when imported into QuarkXPress.
NOTE
The purpose for working through all of these examples is to get
the user more familiar with the different aspects of the program.
It seems that a lot of people work with software like this for
years, but fail to break new ground out of not having proper
direction. The goal is to show as many different examples as
possible covering all of the picture and text box options
through the examples.
To get this to work requires following these steps:
1. Make sure you have the title’s background shade built into the rules. Here
is the style sheet code that makes up the rules:
<*ra(11,"Solid",K,100,28,28,3.6)><*rb(11,"Solid",K,100,28,28,-3.6)>
2. There needs to be a multiple text inset of (0,12,10,12) on the text box.
<&tbu2(0 B,0,21p,30p?,,,,n,,(,n),(,100),,n,,,,,(0,12,10,12),,,,,,)>@ttl:Note
3. The picture box around the text needs to position 0 TL1, but with an
11 point y coordinate. It also will need to be sent to the back, contain a
.5 point rule, and will need relative placement with a 11 point depth reduction. There is also a slight corner radius. Here is the picture box code:
<&pbu2(0 TL1,p11,21p,(30p,R,-p11,0),,,k,n,(0.5,12,),
(,n),(,100), ,n,,,m,,,,,,,"",,,)>
4. The complete code will be:
<&tbu2(0 B,0,21p,30p?p1,,,,n,,(,n),(,100),,n,,,,,(,12,10,12),,,,,,)>@ttl:Note
@nt:Text:<&te><&pbu2(0 TL1,p11,21p,(30p,R,-p11,0),,,k,n,.5,(,n),(,100),
,n,,,m,,,,,,,"",,,)><&g(1,2)>