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• • November 26, 2019 at 11:03 am #1199273
    Martin Stoychev

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    Hi friends!

    I’ve been using InDesign for years but now I stumbled upon this issue. Well, its not an issue but will save me time if you can help me with a tip.

    I have a book with around 1000 footnotes that are tidy made with style but… the text there includes another font with another size (there are some reference letters and words that are using another font)

    So … how can I select only the footnotes to force changes or maybe add a GREP style to find and replace the second font with another font or smaller size (the case is we need to lower from 13pt to 10pt the second font).

    Hope that makes it clear,
    I will reply asap if any questions or help.

    Thanks, friends!

  • November 26, 2019 at 11:07 am #14323515
    Martin Stoychev

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    Just to add – the book is 300+ pages… so thats why it will take time to manually adjust each footnote :)

  • November 28, 2019 at 8:42 am #14323501
    Chris Thompson

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    I see your problem – the Find/Change dialog box has an option ‘include footnotes’ but does not have the option ‘footnotes only’.
    Could you do it in 4 stages:
    1. make sure all the text is set to language 1.
    2. using Find/Change *without* the option ‘include footnotes’, temporarily change everything to language 2 (an attribute that won’t have much effect on the main pages).
    3. using Find/Change *with* the option ‘include footnotes’, make the changes you need, specifying language 1. The main body won’t be touched, because you already changed it to language 2.
    4. using Find/Change, change everything in language 2 back to language 1.

    Good luck,
    Chris.

  • November 29, 2019 at 4:47 am #14323497
    Theunis De Jong

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    If your footnote texts use a dedicated paragraph style, then I see no problem. You can specify this style in the Find Format field in Find/Change. (And as Chris says, don’t forget to check if “Include footnotes” is actually on.)

    That said: if you added that smaller font with a character style, then you have this problem because you stated the smaller size *in* that char style and thus made it work only for a specific base size. You can avoid that by not specifying the actual size in pts, but instead use Horizontal and Vertical Scale in the Advanced Character Formats section. To go from 13pt to 10pt, enter “1000/13” in both the scale fields, and ID will calculate how much that is in %%. (I could have told you to type in “76.9%” but knowing how to get such a value is more useful in the longer run.) Then you can use the same character style for any text size, either larger or smaller, as in your footnotes.

  • November 29, 2019 at 11:34 am #14323495
    Martin Stoychev

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    Hm, interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

    I will think tomorrow when I redesign the type size within the footnotes for something fast and nice as a GREP or script that could help identify and fix the issue.
    And yes, footnotes are with paragraph style and the whole text refers to those second font texts with separate character style with fixed 13pt of size.

    Will write with more info if I come across something interesting.

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