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    • #93557
      Clayton King
      Member

      I’ve searched for this, but seems there’s too many ways of referring to it to find a reasonable search result…

      I’m laying out a fiction book and need to use a glyph/symbol/image (I’m getting less picky as time goes on) in between certain paragraphs. I have an image I’d like to use, and can also create a font with the symbol in it if needed…

      In the document (Word) the author has typed “<fleuron>” (no quotes) on a paragraph by itself to indicate the section mark.

      Because I can’t insert images with styles (remember the days of Ventura Publisher when you could?), I have a paragraph style called “fleuron,” which has centered alignment and a bullet which is a reasonable symbol for this purpose. I’ve played with a character style to apply to the bullet “character” to drop the symbol to the baseline for better spacing.

      Now, I need to find a way to hide the text “<fleuron>” that’s in the copy. I could search/replace and delete it, but this could cause me problems later.

      Anybody got an idea? I’m sure I’ve just missed something simple in the GREP syntax, but I’m stumped.

    • #93560
      Ariel W
      Participant

      I would prepare the paragraph with the fleuron as you want it, including all styles. Then copy the fleuron to the pasteboard. Then, in Find/Change, find the text <fleuron> and replace with the contents of the clipboard, formatted (the control code is ^c).

      Change all, and all the <fleurons> will be replaced with nicely formatted real fleurons.

      If you ever need to change anything, it shouldn’t be too hard if you’ve used a special paragraph style for this paragraph…

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