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• • November 2, 2011 at 2:19 am #60968
    Anonymous

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    Hello,

    I just got an indesign file (that eventually needs to be converted to epub) that han NO :( styles at all. They are all local modifications of the normal style.

    Given that the chapters, subchapters and quotations are not too many, it wouldn't be a nightmare to fix, the problem though, is that there are literally hundreds of endnotes (without styles, only the normal+).

    Is there a way, prehaps with Grep replace, to semi-automatically “restyle” the superscripts, and perhaps even cross reference them (superscript 1 in main text goes to superscript 1 in endnotes sections and backwards, and so on with the other numbers) ?

    Any help or suggestion to help me easily fix this mess would be greatly appreciated.

    I feel really overwhelmed by the task.

    All the best

  • November 2, 2011 at 5:48 am #60972
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    It's a bit unclear what you need I'm afraid.

    * To convert formatted text into character styles, you can use scripts: Free Scripts Help Fix Word Formatting

    * To convert unformatted paragraphs into paragraph styles (and also character styles, incidentally) you can use David's own Blatner Tools

    * What does “restyle” mean? The tools above will create a character style 'superscript' for you and apply it to, uh, the superscripted text (which may include but not be limited to your endnote reference numbers).

    (Addend:) Were you thinking there has to be a way to create 'real' endnotes in InDesign? They don't exist, so you would have to fake them anyway.

  • November 2, 2011 at 11:59 am #60975
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thank you very much for the reply.

    I willl try with the scripts you kindly mention right away, but before starting I will try to explain my situation better.

    The file has no styles at all, only normal+ for characters and paragraps. So I have normal+ that should actually be called “title” paragraph style, another normal+ that should be “subchapter title” paragraph style and so on.

    Many times I have also superscript fonts, again normal+, used for the numbers of the notes that appear in the main text, that perhaps should be “maintext superscript endnote number” character style (I am not actually sure what the best practice would be so suggestions are welcome).

    Given that I need to export to EPUB I need as much consistency as possible, plus, and here is another big part of my question although originally I put it as a secondary question, I would like to make notes that refer back and forward (that is number in main text to endnote text and endnote text to number in main text) through crossreferences/hyperlinks/anchors, so that, when I export to epub, I have a file with notes that can be viewed in a click and with another click the person reading can go back to the main text.

    Here again, I am not sure what the best practice is among InDesign pros, but I feel overwhelmed by the thought of actually having to manually select each of the superscript numbers in the main text, make it an anchor, then go to the relative endnote, make it an anchor as well and then link one to the other and the other to the one. Times 300+, basically a whole day of work if my nerves allow.

    I was hoping that there was a way, through GREP or through some script, to tell InD to find superscript numbers and make them all anchors and even better, tell it to refer to the same number (or the relative text, after having made a numbered paragraph style for the purpose) in the endnote section and the other way round.

    I do not expect a fully automatic solution, but at least something that would minimise the strain on my index finger

    All the best

  • November 3, 2011 at 3:34 am #60979
    Anonymous

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    https://blogs.adobe.com/indesig…..n_cs4.html

    As explained that's the manual way. But there is a link to a scipt at the end of the post

    https://www.kahrel.plus.com/ind…..o_end.html

    Maybe this helps.

  • November 6, 2011 at 3:55 am #61009
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thank you both for the links to the scripts.

    I am getting familiar with them and they indeed help a lot.

    Cheers.

    P.s. It would be great if there was a sort of “epub” script or script package that would include all the things necessary to make epubs from InD with the least amout of tweaking after the file is created.

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