Xpress Tags: How do I use both Character and Paragraph style tags?

[smehta]

I want to use Xpress tags to apply character and paragraph stylesheets when I get ascii text created in Excel into a bus stop panel route timetable. For example, there is one table with both route 1L and 1M times listed together, differentiated by color. 1L times are in dark blue and 1M times are in dark red.

They both use "07| times" paragraph style, but 1L times are in "L times" character style, while 1M times are in "M times" character style. I would like to get the text with the correct style rather than having to manually edit them. In this case the source files has the times listed together, but they alternate.

We have worked with files before where the text sources are different, and are combined and sorted choronologically. So, it would make sense to apply the character style tags to each 'time' before they are sorted.

[smehta]

After looking at Quark Xpress Help, I realized it was a simple solution. The syntax for applying character tag is<@characterstylename>, and for applying paragraph styles is @paragraph
stylename: paragraph text.

Here is a sampling of what it looks like:

@07| Times: <@M times> 12:00 <@L times> 12:11 <@M times> 12:22 <@L times> 12:33 <@M times> 12:44 <@L times> 12:55 <@M times> 1:06

Also, I have to get text in quark and save it as ascii text, then I can get it with "Include style sheets" option selected and it applies the correct style sheets.