Hi, Mr_G,
in Canada (and the US) you have two options:
Americas Edition and Americas Plus Edition
Of course both have also French and English UI incorporated and you can upgrade to either from your QuarkXPress 7 Canadia Edition as well as from older versions of QuarkXPress (3-6). And of course single licenses have dual activation and are cross platform, like your v7. And you have the choice of site licenses (activation based or QLA) too.
So where's the difference?
Worldwide ALL editions contain the same languages for hyphention and justification. They also share the same file format, so any edition can open any file created by any other edition.
"Americas" and "Americas Plus" have two differences:
1) Plus has also East Asian user interfaces (Chinese, Korean, Japanese)
2) Plus has also East Asian authoring capabilities e.g. defining design grids (vertical & horizontal), ruby, mojigumi etc.
The great thing about sharing the same file format is that when a non-"Plus" will open a document created by a "Plus" edition, everything is retained, no reflow, no loss.
In your non-"Plus" Edition you can even use (apply) style sheets that have the aditional East Asian stuff in it (and it works). You just can't redefine or define new ones using East Asian typography features.
So simplyfied: If you also publish for East Asia, get the "Americas Plus" Edition, otherwise the "Americas".
Does that explain it?
Best
Matthias
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