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• • February 17, 2016 at 2:39 am #82073
    Ayman Sayed

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    •i have a table and want to make a paragraph style
    •this table have a numbers and arabic letters
    •numbers from left to right and letters from right to left
    •in paragraph style, indents and spacing, paragraph direction: right to left
    numbers reflected
    2000 changed to 0002 how can i make grep function to select all numbers and reflect to left to right
    thanks

  • March 20, 2016 at 5:19 am #83148
    Lukáš Záleský

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    https://s21.postimg.org/6notyz4s7/V_st_i_ek.jpg
    If you have less digit then 4, post snippet with nonprinting characters

    Lukas

  • March 20, 2016 at 5:48 pm #83156
    Ari Singer

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    The solution is very simple! And I know because I have the same issues when typesetting Hebrew text. I’m not sure if this works in the regular version of InDesign or only in the Middle Eastern version, but I believe you have the ME version anyway.

    Create a character style with only one attribute applied: Go into the character style settings, then into the ‘Middle Eastern Character Format’ pane, and set up ‘Character Direction’ to ‘Left-to-Right’. Save the style, and name it anything you like such as ‘Left-to-Right’ etc.

    Then go into the settings of your paragraph style and create a new GREP style. In the ‘Apply Style’ pane select your ‘Right-to-Left’ character style that you just created, and the ‘To Text’ pane leave at the default of ‘\d+’ (which means: ‘any digit one or more times’).

    Save the paragraph style, and that’s it! The numbers should be fixed now without having to actually change the numbers which is definitely a bad idea!

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