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Roman text importing as italic

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    • December 28, 2020 at 11:52 pm #14333846
      Rivkah Lewis
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      In the book I am typesetting, ID is importing portions of roman text as italics.
      Let’s say there are 3 italic words at the beginning of a paragraph, its then carrying on the italics until the end of the chapter.
      The Word doc seems to be set up fine.
      Any ideas?

    • December 29, 2020 at 1:58 pm #14333889
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      If you place your cursor in the italic text, is there a + symbol in the Paragraph Styles panel, next to the style name?
      If you look in the Character Styles panel, is any character style applied to the text?

    • December 30, 2020 at 11:24 am #14333956
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      Here’s what I’ve done (which is my process for dozens of books done in the past):
      I imported the text without mapping styles.
      I ran a search and replace to find all italic text and replace with an italic character style.
      I then applied the body text style to all the text via control+A. (I format the chapter number and header later using GREP find and change.)
      Usually that does the trick and if I see there are problems, I clear the overrides (this is a straight text kids novel).

      What is happening here is that character style is applying to text that wasn’t italic to begin with!
      When I select the text, it has the italic character style applied to it AND the paragraph style has a plus. When I clear the override, it just changes the font (all italic text is coming out in Times New Roman instead of the font I chose) but remains italic.

    • December 30, 2020 at 2:00 pm #14333958
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Sounds like you have a terrific workflow. Great job! So it sounds like you’re saying that when you do the Find/Change it is finding text that is not italic. That is mysterious. I wonder if there is something about that font that is causing this. Also, have you tried doing a Save As in Word? I find that sometimes I need to do a Save As in Word, and if it’s a .doc file, I save as .docx (or vice versa).

    • December 30, 2020 at 11:49 pm #14333963
      Rivkah Lewis
      Member

      A lot of the workflow I learned from you and your advice over the past decade :)

      The resave did the trick. Thank you!
      Now I think I recall having this once before.
      Must remember this for the future. Seems odd, but if it works, that’s great!

      Thanks again!

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