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• • May 18, 2017 at 7:07 am #94743
    Isabelle Archambault

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    Hi!

    how can I automatically force a line break after 50 characters?

  • May 18, 2017 at 7:40 am #94745
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    To find the 51th char:

    (?-s)^.{50}\K.

    To find text after 51th char until the end of the para:

    (?-s)^.{50}\K.+

    (^/)

  • May 18, 2017 at 7:55 am #94746
    Isabelle Archambault

    Member

    What?!

    In InDesign..! I want that to happen automatically.

  • May 18, 2017 at 8:06 am #94747
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    C’est quoi la finalité ?

    (^/)

  • May 18, 2017 at 8:08 am #94748
    Isabelle Archambault

    Member

    PDF

  • May 18, 2017 at 8:10 am #94749
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    ??

    Je pensais plutôt à : Pourquoi couper les lignes après le 50e caractère ! =D

    (^/)

  • May 18, 2017 at 8:12 am #94750
    Isabelle Archambault

    Member

    bonne question. l’idee de mon client.je dois trouver un moyen de le faire.

  • May 18, 2017 at 8:21 am #94751
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    ??

    On ne va pas avancer vite à ce train-là !! =D

  • May 18, 2017 at 8:55 am #94752
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    There is no easy way to do this. You could use Obi-wan’s grep trick to insert paragraph returns at the particular spot on each line (I can show you how if you want), but it will take some time. InDesign is not designed to break after a certain number of characters.

    An easy option would be to apply a mono-spaced font (like Courier) to all the text and make the text frame 50 characters wide.

    • May 19, 2017 at 1:58 am #94770
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

      Participant

      Yeap! It will take time! 1 second! =D

      Find: .{49}\K.
      Replace by: $0

      … if you consider a space as a char!

      If not, you’ll need more regex (3 if you consider all spaces as same ones) and more time! Maybe 2 op-seconds! =D

      Find:
      Replace ~j

      Find: .{49}\K.
      Replace by: $0

      Find: ~j
      Replace by:
      (type a normal space)

      (^/)

  • May 18, 2017 at 8:58 am #94753
    Isabelle Archambault

    Member

    thank you!
    im using Verdana.
    How do I do a 50 character wide frame?

  • May 18, 2017 at 10:07 am #94755
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Verdana is a “proportional width” font. That means some characters are more wide and other are more narrow. So 50 “i” is going to be a very different width than 50 “m”

    So there is no way to make a 50 character wide frame.

  • May 18, 2017 at 10:21 am #94757
    Isabelle Archambault

    Member

    Thank you very much for your help!

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