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XML Professional Publisher: Magazine Layout and Pagination for use with XPP 9.0 September 2014 Notice © SDL Group 1999, 2003-2005, 2009, 2012-2014. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. SDL Group has prepared this document for use by its personnel, licensees, and customers. The information contained herein is the property of SDL and shall not, in whole or in part, be reproduced, translated, or converted to any electronic or machine-readable form without prior written approval from SDL. Printed copies are also covered by this notice and subject to any applicable confidentiality agreements. The information contained in this document does not constitute a warranty of performance. Further, SDL reserves the right to revise this document and to make changes from time to time in the content thereof. SDL assumes no liability for losses incurred as a result of out-of-date or incorrect information contained in this document. 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Contractor or manufacturer is SDL Group, 201 Edgewater Drive, Wakefield, MA 01880-6216. ii Contents About This Manual Conventions Used in This Manual ........................... x For More Information ...................................... xii Chapter 1 Magazine Layout and Pagination Magazine Production ...................................... 1-2 Traditional Production Cycle ............................. 1-2 XPP Production Cycle ................................... 1-2 Text Flow With Magazine Pagination .................... 1-2 Terms You Should Know .............................. 1-3 Summary of the Production Process ......................... 1-4 Chapter 2 Preparing Libraries and Specs Building Style Libraries .................................... 2-2 Using Grids in Magazine Work ............................. 2-3 Numbering Lines in Blocks ............................... 2-4 Creating and Storing Grids ............................... 2-6 Using Page Layout Templates ............................... 2-7 Function of Page Layout Templates ....................... 2-7 Creating a Page Layout Template ......................... 2-7 Preparing Style Specs for Magazine Work .................... 2-10 Magazine Layout and Pagination Contents iii Pagination Tries Spec (PT) ................................ 2-10 Pagination Style Spec (PS) ................................ 2-10 Item Format Spec (IF) .................................... 2-12 Chapter 3 Magazine Production Creating Divisions and Modifying Layouts ................... 3-2 Assigning Blocks to Stories ................................. 3-6 Assign New Blocks to the Story Stream .................... 3-6 Assign or Reassign Existing Blocks to the Story Stream ...... 3-7 Assigning Sequence to a Block ............................ 3-8 Pushing Story Text to the Galley Section ................... 3-9 Creating Pickups With Stories .............................. 3-10 Entering Story Text ........................................ 3-11 Importing Story Text .................................... 3-11 ToXSF and Stories ..................................... 3-11 Story Tag Primitive ................................... 3-12 Entering Story Text Directly .............................. 3-12 Entering Text on Galley Pages .......................... 3-13 Entering Text Into Story Blocks ......................... 3-14 Reassigning a Layout Block and Entering Story Text ....... 3-15 Entering Jump Heads and Continued Messages ............... 3-16 Using the Continued Macro .............................. 3-16 Using the Jump Title XyMacro ............................ 3-17 Understanding the Galley Section ........................... 3-19 Finding Stories and Galley Pages ......................... 3-19 Accessing Stories From the Story Stream Menu ........... 3-19 Accessing Stories From Layout ......................... 3-20 Accessing Stories From the Find/Page Menu ............. 3-21 Accessing a Specific Page Position ...................... 3-21 Going to Pages in a Two-Page Display ................... 3-22 Formatting Galley Pages ................................. 3-22 Creating Page Layouts for Galley Pages ................. 3-23 Outputting Page Numbers and Story Titles ............... 3-25 Formatting Galley Pages After Stories Are Input .......... 3-25 Chapter 4 Composing Stories Composing Stories ........................................ 4-2 The Composition Menus ................................. 4-2 Composing the Galley Section ............................ 4-2 Composing the Entire Galley Section .................... 4-2 iv Contents Magazine Layout and Pagination Composing Individual Stories .......................... 4-3 Stopping Story Composition ................................ 4-4 Printing Galley Pages ...................................... 4-5 Displaying Story Status .................................... 4-6 Conferencing Stories in a Division ........................... 4-8 Turning Off Conferencing Mode .......................... 4-9 Composing a Conferenced Story .......................... 4-9 Creating a New Story in a Conferenced Division ............ 4-9 Glossary Index Magazine Layout and Pagination Contents v Figures 2-1 Grid Spec ................................................ 2-3 2-2 Grid That Numbers Lines in the Block Only .................. 2-4 2-3 Page Layout Defining the 2col Template Layout ............... 2-8 2-4 Layout that the 2col Template Defines ....................... 2-9 2-5 PS Table that Calls the Layout ‘extra’ ......................... 2-11 2-6 PL Table that Defines ‘extra’ ................................ 2-11 2-7 Example of Table in Item Format Spec ....................... 2-12 3-1 ASCII Text Containing a Story .............................. 3-11 3-2 An Example of a gal2col Table in the Page Layout Spec ........ 3-24 vi Contents Magazine Layout and Pagination Tables 1-1 Text Flow With Magazine and Standard Pagination ............ 1-2 2-1 Grid Spec Fields .......................................... 2-4 4-1 Story Status Information ................................... 4-7 Magazine Layout and Pagination Contents vii viii Contents Magazine Layout and Pagination About This Manual This manual describes the XPP Magazine Layout and Pagination software, including how to perform the following tasks: • Incorporate the principles of layout and design into a magazine production cycle • Set up grids and style specs for magazine work • Create and modify page layout templates • Input story text, assign stories to blocks, and compose stories • Work with galley pages Although much of this document pertains to the Magazine Layout and Pagination option, some information builds on tools and features used elsewhere in the XML Professional Publisher (XPP). Refer to XPP Professional Publisher: User Guide. Magazine Layout and Pagination About This Manual ix Conventions Used in This Manual ................................................... ....................... Conventions Used in This Manual This manual uses a set of symbolic, typographic, and terminology conventions to categorize specific information. Take a few moments to become familiar with these conventions before you use this manual. Convention Description Bold Bold type, used in procedures, indicates the object of the action. It may be a menu option, a push button, or a field, and so forth. For example, “select Open” means select the menu option called Open. Position cursor means to move the cursor to a specific location. Enter appropriate information means that you enter information that is appropriate for your site or for the specific job. Bold may be used elsewhere in the manual to denote emphasis. Key Capital first letter and the word “key” indicates a key on the keyboard. Capital first letter and the words “Softkey menu” indicate the menu pad to the right of the XyView. Unless otherwise indicated, this manual assumes that you press the Enter key at the end of a command line. Key+Key This sequence indicates a Shortcut Key combination. Hold down the first key while also pressing the second key, that is ALT+F4 means to hold down the Alt key while also pressing the F4 key. Message A monospaced typeface indicates an application’s response to your action. For example, “the message Enter Value appears” means that the application displays the words “Enter Value.” Italics In running text, an italic typeface indicates a new term; for example, “The replacement string of characters is the output string.” In a system message, a field entry, or an argument to a command, an italic typeface indicates a variable. For example, filename is a variable in the message “Can’t open filename.” Italics are also used for the names of programs, such as Perl. “ ” Quotation marks indicate that you should enter exactly what the instructions tell you to enter. For example, type “yes” means to type the letter y, the letter e, and the letter s. ÒÚ Reverse-video square brackets represent tags in standard XPP. Tags are general-purpose commands defined in the Item Format Spec and embedded in a document. They generally format logical components of text, such as chapter openings, headers, or lists. For example, the