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• • August 17, 2016 at 10:16 am #87548
    Luiz Silveira

    Member

    Hi.

    I work with some other languages than english, and in some stories I have english expressions that need to be in italic (or another style). I know it will sound a little impossible, but is there a way to use GREP and identify all words that need to be in italic? Wait, before saying no: my text styles are in other languages, so english words appears with those red underline due the spelling tool. So MAYBE it’s possible to do something like: “if word is not in the dictionary, make it italic”. :)

    Any idea? :)

    Thanks,
    Luiz

  • August 18, 2016 at 4:22 am #87587
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    If the non-English language uses the same alphabet as English, I can think of one potential difficulty with the dictionary approach: words which are in fact English, but are spelled the same way as a non-English word.
    Common examples:
    “of” in English is also a Dutch word meaning “or”,
    “in” is a word in a number of European languages including English…

    Sorry, I haven’t got any constructive solutions other than the Mk1 eyeball.

    Chris.

  • August 18, 2016 at 6:09 am #87591
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    As Chris wrote above, I don’t think there is any way to do this… unless the language uses non-roman characters: https://creativepro.com/search-for-foreign-language-characters-in-text.php

  • August 18, 2016 at 7:37 am #87593
    Luiz Silveira

    Member

    Thanks, Chris and David. I really don’t see a way too. I read the documentation about scripts and didn’t find any way to “capture” the “wrong” words. In my case I only work with latin languages, so I will still do it manually.

    My idea is always make my files the most automatic as possible to avoid forgetting something when in a hurry closing files overnight. This thing would help but it’s not essential. Maybe soon I’ll find a way and if so, I will share here.

    Thanks a lot.

  • August 19, 2016 at 2:40 am #87609
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    One final thought on streamlining the process for that kind of semi-repetitive task that can’t be automated: don’t forget keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to styles, making it a little quicker than using the mouse to assign the style every time.

  • August 19, 2016 at 11:31 am #87620
    Luiz Silveira

    Member

    Thanks, Chris but I’m on a MacBook so I don’t have side numpad to make shortcuts. :( I miss my desktop sometimes. :)

  • August 19, 2016 at 12:02 pm #87627
    Chris Thompson

    Member

    Hi Luiz – when I used a MacBook, I bought a separate keyboard specifically so that I could use the shortcuts. It paid for itself in terms of the time I saved.
    You can also buy just the numpad as a separate accessory.

    Good luck,
    Chris.

  • August 19, 2016 at 12:11 pm #87630
    Luiz Silveira

    Member

    I had a keyboard, but that small one without the numpad. Hahahaha. But you’re right: I’ll buy a regular one. Will be useful and my “j” key is growing a small crack, so will be good to give my keyboard a little break.

    Thanks again! Have a great weekend!

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