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• • May 7, 2011 at 9:17 am #59523
    indecello

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    Hi everyone,

    i need to find all slashes at soft line endings of a text and join the word like in the example:

    “… hallo/

    there” should become:

    “… hallo/there”

    Does anyone knows a way to force a No Divide (split) command to a word containing a slash (or any other symbol) or a javascript for such a thing? i am working on a huge document…

    thanks a lot

    marcello

  • May 9, 2011 at 3:13 am #59534
    Theunis De Jong

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    The 'soft line endings' cannot be found with regular Find/Change, but you can access lines through Javascript.

    But doing this with a Javascript for this is extremely tricky — it changes the line ending, and that could imply that a previously untouched occurrence would need to be changed as well (and that in turn may influence yet other line breaks, or — because InDesign has a very advanced “complete paragraph” based composition engine — even the one line that caused this particular change …)

    I'd use a GREP style for this. Make a character style that only applies “No Break”, and have it applied to this GREP string:

    w/w

  • May 9, 2011 at 3:28 am #59538
    indecello

    Member

    thank's that's perfect, easy and fast!!!

    i just thought that no brake style could only be applyed to paragraphs.

    thanks again

    marcello

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