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    • March 12, 2013 at 8:28 am #64379
      TAshirley
      Member

      Hi all,

      I'd like to place line numbering in a long-ish prose passage. I was hoping to do it with the auto-numbering feature in indesign rather than with a script so that I can reference the line numbers later. Is there any way to accomplish this? I'd rather not have to manually insert line breaks, as that would be inflexible and time consuming.

      Thanks!

    • March 12, 2013 at 9:23 am #64381
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      See this forum thread: https://creativepro.com/for…..ne-numbers

    • March 12, 2013 at 9:25 am #64383
      TAshirley
      Member

      That was actually an old post of mine. The solution I found only works for poetry. With prose, because there are no line breaks, there are only line numbers for paragraphs. Is there any way to tell indeisgn to put a number there without insert a line break?

    • March 12, 2013 at 9:41 am #64384
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Oh, that's funny. I didn't look to see who had written it! :)

      Here's an article about that: https://creativepro.com/num…..f-text.php

    • March 12, 2013 at 10:03 am #64385
      TAshirley
      Member

      Hm, it doesn't seem as if it'll do exactly what I need it to. Is there any way to accomplish this using inCopy? I've never used it before but could it be helpful here?

    • March 12, 2013 at 10:28 am #64386
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Nope.

      What is it about the blog post solution (numbering in a separate frame) that doesn't work for you?

    • March 12, 2013 at 10:31 am #64387
      TAshirley
      Member

      Well I'd like to be able to reference the line numbers, and have those references change so that if I reformat the text or add new lines the references will change accordingly. With the line numbers in a separate frame they would be unrelated to the content, right?

    • March 12, 2013 at 12:35 pm #64388
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      That's right. I don't think there's going to be anything inside ID that can do what you need. Maybe a custom script.

    • March 12, 2013 at 12:38 pm #64389
      TAshirley
      Member

      Alright, thank you for your help (both on these forums and in the lynda videos)!

    • March 20, 2013 at 9:57 am #64445
      TAshirley
      Member

      Is there any way to trick indesign into thinking that there is a line break at the end of a line (without it actually breaking)? Like some non-breaking return?

    • March 20, 2013 at 12:43 pm #64446
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Does inserting U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR help?

      Place a dummy character where you want it to occur, Text search for it, and replace it with <2029>.

    • March 21, 2013 at 11:47 am #64459
      TAshirley
      Member

      I don't know how to insert unicode characters in indesign. Is this something I need a script for?

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