Many configuration settings allow you to specify text values that will appear in output. You can surround the text with any character format (including formats not defined elsewhere; DITA2Go defines them), or with one or more of the following typographic tags:
You can use typographic tags in the definitions of format components, and also in settings in the Languages configuration files. Most text-value configuration settings are included in each of the language configuration files, where they have default values appropriate to the language in question; see §8.9 Localizing output headings, labels, and names.
And you can nest tags. For example:
[StopHead] form = <b><i>Stop!</i></b>
DITA2Go automatically terminates any typographic tag at the end of the text, unless you terminate it earlier with a closing tag.
You can also define a character format and use its name in the definition of a format component. For example, in a Formats configuration file:
[Attention] based = char font weight = bold font style = italic
And in a Subformats configuration file:
[StopHead] form = <Attention>Stop!</Attention>
You can mix format tags and typographic tags in the same format component definition; however, best practice is to assign the typographic tags to the format itself.
Note: Do not try to assign more than one <format> tag to a format component.
To specify quote styles for the <q> typographic element, in a language configuration file:
[ElementText] ; Quotes = left double, right double, left single, and right single, ; in a space-delimited list, for <q> element, nested alternately. Quotes= “ ” ‘ ’
DITA2Go recognizes either the Windows code page or the UTF-8 characters. Quote characters are inserted literally in the encoding specified for the output type. Default values for quote characters are provided in each of the language configuration files; see §8.5 Configuring output numbering properties. The values shown here are the default values specified in d2g_lang_en.ini. You can override the default values in a general configuration file.