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• • February 24, 2010 at 11:01 am #55001
    Mark Talbot

    Participant

    I would like to be able to set up a nested style format to set the first LINE of text as bold within a paragraph. Obviously, the first line does not have a fixed parameter like “bold until colon”, “bold 1st sentence” or such, and will change depending upon the characters used. A short/crude example follows at the end of this post. The end use is for using automated/rolling paragraph styles: “apply X style, then next style”, for classified ads. Is there a way to do this, or does this go into the arena of scripting? Thanks in advance for your responses.

    Example—-

    For sale 36V power inverter

    with multiplexer expansion

    bays and redundant power

    override. 20 hrs use only,

    asking $650 please contact

    555.555.5555 for more info

  • February 24, 2010 at 11:05 am #55002
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    That's exactly why Adobe added Line Styles in CS4… no way to really do it in CS3 well, unfortunately. But Line Styles makes it really easy!

  • February 24, 2010 at 1:27 pm #55004
    Mark Talbot

    Participant

    Drats! Alas, I should have been clear – we require a solution for CS2/CS3. Still working on the boss for the upgrade to CS4. Any hope for us backwards, budget-crunched folk for a 1st line bold solution?

    BTW David, thanks for your dedication on so many issues here in publishing and the world of InD. Your podcasts, tools, plug-ins, scripts, etc have been invaluable in moving my workflow and effectiveness forward by leaps and bounds. Gratitude. _M

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