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GREP or character style for kerning one pair of letters

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    • January 22, 2019 at 11:42 am #113798
      Grace Peirce
      Member

      Hi — I’m using a font that make the letters “rn” look like the letter “m” and I’d like to create a character style or do a GREP search to add kerning to that letter pair to kern them apart a little so that they look more like separate letters. Is this possible?

    • January 22, 2019 at 12:12 pm #113801
      Aaron Troia
      Participant

      Grace,

      You could try r(?=n) and apply a character style with how ever much tracking (as kerning only gives you three options in character styles) you need to separate them. That should only apply it to the “r” but only an “r” followed by an “n”.

    • January 22, 2019 at 12:19 pm #113802
      Tim Murray
      Member

      Or, hand-make an “rn” with a nice-looking space, copy it, then do a search for “rn” and replace it with what’s on the clipboard.

    • January 22, 2019 at 1:00 pm #113809
      Grace Peirce
      Member

      Thanks — I’ve tried using tracking for just the 2 letters and creating a character style, but it also applies the extra tracking BEFORE the letter pair, so that won’t work.

      I’ve tried kerning the pair apart, copying it, and using search for a non-kerned “rn” and replacing it with the copied/pasted kerned pair, and the kerning apparently isn’t copied, or isn’t honored by the search/replace.

      but thanks for troubleshooting this with me! I was thinking a GREP search might be possible, but can’t figure out how to signify a kerning value.

      There may be a way to manually alter the kerning pair map for the font, but that is beyond my capability.

    • January 22, 2019 at 1:47 pm #113810
      Aaron Troia
      Participant

      Weird, in my test it only added the tracking after the “r”. Yeah I dont know why but it seems to be able to apply kerning values, it has to be done manually. I was hoping that using tracking would be a work around.

      Have you tried Peter Kahrel’s Kerning script? I just ran across it and it might do the trick for what you’re needing. https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/kern.html

    • January 22, 2019 at 1:49 pm #113811
      Grace Peirce
      Member

      Thanks Aaron — I’ll have a look at the Kahrel script and see if it will do the trick!
      Grace

    • January 28, 2019 at 9:01 am #113974
      Tim Murray
      Member

      What about using one of the very thin spaces? Too wide?

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