On the left

Attributes which can be set, removed or left unchanged, based on the state of the CheckBox control.

On the right

Attributes which can either be set or left unchanged.

Hor./Vert. Scale

Even though you can specify both a horizontal and a vertical scale in the above dialog, QuarkXPress will only accept one of the 2 choices.

It is your responsibility to only select vertical or horizontal scale, and to ensure that this choice does not conflict with any attributes currently specified in the GridTemplate.

Kerning

Kerning is a property between 2 characters, not a property of any individual character.

Therefore when kerning is applied to a range of characters, it is in reality applied to the first and second characters, and so on, until we reach the last character whose kerning to the following character is also set to the specified value.

Shade

This value is in percentage, where 100% corresponds to the full color, and 0% to white.

Color

Select one of the list of colors contained in the current GridTemplate.

Change Text

This option, in addition to any formatting changes specified in the other parts of the dialog, can be used to replace the text by a fixed text, such as a wingding.

This could be used, for example, to replace the outside days of a MiniCalendar by a hyphen or a bullet.

You can specify that the text should not replace the date, but should instead be prepended or appended. In this manner, and usually with a Sara to fine-tune the details, one can display, for example, flags on certain national holidays.

Framing

QuarkXPress

2017-2023

Allows you to specify text background shading and/or text background framing to apply to the text (requires QuarkXPress 2017-2023).

If the Text Attributes Editor is launched from within the minicalendar options dialog, then a special dialog is displayed combining both of the the text background shading and framing options.

Stroke
QuarkXPress

2017-2023

Allows you to specify text stroking to apply to the text (requires QuarkXPress 2017-2023 or InDesign).

Behavior

This option is only visible, if the Text Attributes Editor is launched from within the minicalendar options dialog, and it specifies how to reconcile multiple, and possibly conflicting, sets of attributes to be applied (for example, if the current week options are set to change the text color to blue, and the current day options are set to change the text color to red).

For more details on how the many text formatting options of MiniCalendars are processed, and how you can change that order, see minicalendar formatting sequence.