Reply To: Character Style Automation for Foreign words

Abbas, I have been working with Right to Left Languages from the past 15 years. I’m a linguistic operator by profession. I too cam across the same problem while working in InDesign. I am working with InDesign ME (Middle East) since CS2. InDesign lacks the ability to define two fonts for the same paragraph. The “https://s13.postimg.org/9ggyhsfnr/word_para.gif” shows the screen grab from MS Word which has this feature since its beginning (with Language support). The ‘Complex Scripts’ font drop-down list controls the font for the Right-to-Left Languages example: Arabic, Urdu, Persian, Dari, Hebrew etc whereas ‘Latin text’ controls the font for the Left-to-Right languages example: English, French, etc. Hope Adobe, will bring some relief to us in his next launch someday; David, please pass this information to Adobe.

When I come across such problem, I define the main Font for the complex script in my paragraph style and creates a character style for the latin text.
Secondly, you can change the language of your complex script to something like “Arabic” and then you can easily apply some GREP or Find/Replace for the latin language ‘English UK’.

David, can you give us some GREP code to apply formatting to a definite language, lets say ‘English UK’. We can use that code in our para style to automatically apply the character style to our latin text or vice-versa.