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strategy for replacing two text characters with one glyph

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    • March 31, 2011 at 6:49 am #59128
      sam452
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      I'm trying to come up with an Applescript strategy for the subject line. I usually try to attempt what I want to do through Indesign CS5 manually. Usually most of the script steps will follow those actions. Text Find/Change would be best because I can then apply a character style to my change results, but I see no way to express the Unicode 25FD character of EuropeanPi 3 Std to it.

      Attempting to do the same with the Glyph Find/Change I find that I cannot seem to put in two characters for the Find Glyph dialog. ANd it needs a font, which I can ignore in Text Find/Change. That makes it easier to automate.

      If you were me with this problem, how would you solve it? Then I should be able to build an applescript solution to it, thanx, sam

    • April 4, 2011 at 8:13 am #59164
      Rhiannon Miller
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      You're using Applescript, so you're on a Mac. In which case you can hunt down the character(s) you want from the Character Viewer in your menubar (and if it's not there, you can turn it on in System Preferences under Language & Text > Input Sources). You can type the name or unicode ID into the search box and then choose the character and click on it to make it insert at your cursor in your search box or your script editor. Then just use a Text or Grep search as normal.

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