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• • January 18, 2018 at 1:10 pm #101087
    Nicolas Flamel

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    Hi,

    [CS6]
    I’m having a problem with a text defined as 2-pages letter. It uses two different paragraph styles: chapter opening paragraph and following paragraphs. Inside text, words can have superscript characters. I defined a character style for that (Superscript). On the other hand some parts of text should be tagged with colored background. for that I also use different character styles (Color0x).

    Problem occurs when I try to tag words (with Color0x style) that already have the Superscript style applied … the superscript character position disappears and becomes normal. Consequence formatting is lost. Yet my color styles has been defined to be independent of the position (normal, superscript, etc)

    Is there any notion of precedence for character styles in Indesign? The last style applied would be the one that overwrites the properties defined by the previous style? But because I did not specify a value for the position parameter in the Color0x style, I will have to keep superscript characters… But that does not seem the case …. Can we not be able to use several styles of characters on the same text?

    Is there a way to do what I want? ie to keep superscript characters and avoid to losing them when Color style is applied ?

    thanks in advance

  • January 18, 2018 at 1:50 pm #101089
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Nicolas, if only you hadn’t let go of the sorcerer’s stone… that stone allowed you to apply more than one character style to text. But without that, it’s impossible.

    I’m kidding about the stone, of course. But the truth is that InDesign only lets you apply one character style. If you change the character style, it removes the old one and applies the new one.

    The only solutions would be to make a third character style that applies both superscript and color… or you could first select the text, choose Break Link to Style from the character style panel menu (at which point the first style would be converted to local/manual override formatting), and then apply another one.

    Everyone who wants to apply more than one character style to text should vote for it here:
    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests/suggestions/31112107-allow-multiple-character-styles-to-be-applied-to-c

  • January 18, 2018 at 1:58 pm #101090
    Nicolas Flamel

    Participant

    Merci David for your quick answer….
    I’m a bit disapointed .. So I will do manually.

    for sure it’s an important Feature Request. I will vote for

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