Reply To: GREP Style with Search/Replace?

1…em-dashes do not have a space on either side, technically. They should be typed glyph+em-dash+glyph. With a good font this works just fine. With lesser-quality fonts, this doesn't work so well, hence my question. In retrospect, switching from Metrics to Optical might work, but this GREP line of thought is still worth pursuing for some fonts.

2…It's a matter of time—specifically, rushing. Solving problems is my job (depending on the hat I have on at the time), and giving them a “just do this in GREP Styles” is one thing. Asking them to remember to do a GREP Search just before the job goes to production (and hope someone down the line doesn't edit or fiddle with it as it passes through multiple other hands on the way) is asking a bit much in our workflow.

“Magic” solutions no one thinks twice about. If they have to do it manually, it'll never happen or will happen wrong. ;)

You'd probably have to work here to understand why “search and replace” tips aren't viable here—solutions have to be automated and survive passing through alot of hands and stay correct at every stage (let's not confuse the proofreaders…). I have to admit even *I* wouldn't remember to do last-minute Search/Replace solutions when someone is breathing down my neck for the printouts…