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Changing a hyphen glyph. Is this even possible?

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    • March 29, 2013 at 8:02 am #64530
      RandomJT
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      So I work in application support and one of my designers just completely stumped me. I thought this might be the only place to turn if this is even possible. The interior designer is choosing to use the font pastonchi, which uses a double-line symbol for line breaking hyphens. (unicode 002D) It looks like a cursive equal sign or something. Her editors love the font, and hate the hyphen, and really don't want to hear my solution of “pick a different font.” But while I can find change the format to remove keyed-in hyphens, and change them to another font, or a minus glyph, which is normal in appearance, the hyphens that are being generated by the application for line breaks do not change. Is there a way to tell InDesign to automatically substitute this glyph? Thanks!

    • March 29, 2013 at 9:19 am #64531
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I was going to suggest a grep style, but they don't appear to work on hyphens that ID inserts at a line break. Fascinating!

      However, it is usually relatively easy to create a custom font based on another font using tools from FontLab.com

      https://creativepro.com/mak…..a-font.php

    • March 29, 2013 at 9:58 am #64532
      RandomJT
      Member

      Thanks David. I will have to test it and see if that is a valid solution. I was kind of hoping there was an internal InDesign action that could take place, to avoid touching the font itself so I wouldn't have to worry about liscensing issues of printing problems, but I was pessemistic that such a solution existed. Thanks again.

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