Alex,
Take a look at
http://www.vom.com/svcg/a198.htm. It should get you started.
>Hi all -
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>I have an old FoxPro 2.6/Mac application (written with FoxExpress 2.7) that collects data and outputs an ASCII Text file for importing into Quark Express (for subsequent publication purposes). I would like to embed "escape sequences" or the like such that I can control Quark's BOLD On/Off, Italics On/Off, etc. attributes. This would save the client tons of time, as they would no longer have to do global search and replaces once the import is done.
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>Does anyone know if Quark can support this, and if so, what I need to put into my text output?
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--sb--