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• • April 26, 2016 at 9:09 am #84321
    Kambro

    Member

    Dear Indesigners,

    Is it possible that Indesing insert automatically non-breaking spaces during typing the text, for example before a double point?
    Thank you by forehand and excuse me for my bad english.

    Koenraad

  • April 26, 2016 at 11:04 am #84327
    Matt Isaac

    Participant

    You can do this with paragraph styles as a grep style.
    You’ll need to create a character style with the “no break” setting.
    Then in the paragraph style options under the GREP Styles add a New GREP Style
    In the Apply Style: field you will select the “no break” character style. In the To Text: field you will put (?=\.\.)
    This will create a nonbreaking space at every space followed by two periods.

  • April 26, 2016 at 1:28 pm #84335
    Kambro

    Member

    Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately it failed.
    1. Do I need to create a character style “no break” without specific setting into?
    2. My purpose is to obtain that the nonbreaking space should be created as soon as I type a colon character (and not a double point; I misspoke) without type a space. For example, if I type “City: New York” it appears “City : New York” with a nonbreaking space between City and the colon. In Microsoft Word, its a default option, at least for French Users.

    Again excuse for my very bad english.

    Koenraad

    • April 26, 2016 at 7:25 pm #84345
      Ari Singer

      Member

      Unfortunately this does not seem to be possible to do automatically in InDesign. What you can do is to insert all the desired spaces in one fell swoop with GREP Find/Change.

      Following are the settings:
      Find What: (\S)(:)
      Change To: $1~S$2

      As soon as you hit Change All, all the colons in your story will be preceded by a non-breaking space.

    • April 27, 2016 at 1:08 am #84347
      Kambro

      Member

      Thank you, Ari S. Your tip seems the best solution.

      Koenraad Moreau

    • April 27, 2016 at 5:54 am #84349
      Matt Isaac

      Participant

      Ari’s solution was my next suggestion but i had to test a new possibility before i posted..

      Although it is not possible to add characters automatically, this can still be automated using tracking. Again just as in my first post you will need to create a Character style. Though this time instead of creating a “no break” style, you will set only a tracking value of around 300 (this can be adjusted later to your liking.) In the paragraph styles options you will use the GREP Style to apply your tracking style to text: (?=\:).

    • April 27, 2016 at 6:05 am #84352
      Kambro

      Member

      Thank you. Now, I understand it. Its very ingenious!

    • April 27, 2016 at 8:54 am #84380
      Ari Singer

      Member

      Smart tip!

  • April 27, 2016 at 9:22 am #84381
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    There’s an old discussion (from the CS3/CS3 era) on this subject, in particular what kind of space to put before colons in French, here:
    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/326089
    where “Jongware” (who contributes to this forum) has a script to clean up text

    Bonne chance,
    Chris.

    • April 27, 2016 at 12:46 pm #84389
      Kambro

      Member

      Thanks ThompsonText. Very interesting thread.

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