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• • January 31, 2013 at 2:19 am #64040
    Simon Duckworth

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    Hi All, I was wondering if anyone had the same thing happen and knows a good method/workaround?

    I'm putting together a technical manual, have been supplied Word docs that carry a lot of extraneous styles/mathematical symbols/coloured text/occasional highlighted text. I carefully import the .doc into ID CS5.5, use PrepText to hunt the styles, trash the Word styles. It's really important that I keep the symbols, super/subscripts etc. in the doc. I also use find font to replace the myriad of fonts that are used in the Word doc.

    My problem is, I'm applying character style of coloured text to a sentence which contains the preptext supercript character style. The text colours as it should, but doesn't honour the superscript effect, it simply knocks the superscript off – and I don't always notice it happening. Is there a good way of implementing these conflicting styles? It's causing me a real headache!

    Note – I hope this helps someone! From bitter experience, I found it critical to prepare the Word file properly – highlighted text is an odd one because Word doesn't seem to register it as a style – my workaround is to change the highlighted text to an unused text colour, save a copy of the Word file, and import it into ID that way.

    Many thanks, Biggedy

  • February 1, 2013 at 12:35 am #64046
    Gert Verrept

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    If I get it right, you're applying a char style which gives a colour to a complete sentence, but there's already another char style (Super) from the preptext script applied. I tried it, and, as I expected, the colour style overrides the other one from the preptext, but it doesn't knock off the superscript, it just set's it the plain text. In the char style I only filled in the colour, nothing else (see the char style from preptext it only has “superscript” in it. I don't think you can apply two different char styles on the same letter at the same time. If it are footnote references, you can have a work around by first applying the colour char style then searching for all the footnote references and applying the “super” char style made by preptext.

  • February 1, 2013 at 6:51 am #64047
    Simon Duckworth

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    @Gert – Thanks, you're quite right, I'm trying to apply two different character styles and expecting ID to combine the formatting. I think you're right – as I can't apply 2 character styles, it seems to be either one style or the other.

    I guess the only workaround would be to find/replace based on the different font weight and colour combinations in the doc and make these individual styles so that I never lose the formatting?

  • February 2, 2013 at 8:50 am #64050
    Gert Verrept

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    Indeed, I think it's the only way to keep the formatting as it should be.

  • February 2, 2013 at 10:08 am #64051
    Theunis De Jong

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    If my version is what you are using, yes, preptext is indeed oblivious of colors. In David's very own Blatner Tools, however, allows both basic formatting (what preptext does) and advanced formatting to be encapsulated into styles: https://www.dtptools.com/produc…..e=features

  • February 4, 2013 at 2:21 am #64054
    Simon Duckworth

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    @gert – Thanks for confirming what I suspected!

    @Jongware – That's great to know where the limits are on Preptext (it's a very useful tool nonetheless), and many thanks for the heads-up on Blatner tools.

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