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Aaron Troia
ParticipantYou might try grouping your alternations like (?! (OZ|oz|lts|ozs)) or (?! (?:OZ|oz|lts|ozs)) so that it’s non-capturing.
October 2, 2014 at 10:02 am in reply to: HELP WITH GREP Find any text but not inside parentheses #70857ParticipantI’ve been thinking about your questing for a few days now and I think this should find most of the instances of text between closing and opening parentheses, except for the text before the initial opening and the text after the final closing parentheses.
Find: (?<=\) )(?s:(.+?))(?= \()
To find the text before the initial opening and after the final closing parentheses:
Text before opening parentheses: (?s:(.+?))(?= \()
Text after closing parentheses: (?<=\) )(?s:(.+?))$Hopefully those will work for what you are trying to do.
Participantoh ok, I see, that does make it harder when you have phrases, I see now why you had the space in your character range. Now I tried this with Latin and it seems to have worked, all i did was introduce a space like you had into the character range so that it would keep going until it hit punctuation.
Find: ([\x{0590}-\x{05FF} ]+)([.,;:?!])
Change: $2$1ParticipantNow I haven’t tried this in InDesign, but thought I would see if it would help, you might be able to do a search for Hebrew Unicode characters, it looks like the range is 0590–05FF, so you could try doing a search for [\x{0590}-\x{05FF}]+ to find only the Hebrew characters with the punctuation at the end in a separate group, then switching the groups in your change so the punctuation comes before the Hebrew Characters.
Find: ([\x{0590}-\x{05FF}]+)([,.?!])
Change To: $2$1ParticipantYou are going to need to run two Regex’s for what you are asking, as Character Styles over ride each other and there is no Grep for excluding Smallcaps. you might need to temporarily add something unique to one or both sides of the small caps so that you can identify the strings of Smallcaps in your Grep searches, and then strip them out when you’re done.
Here is a Regex to change everything in parens to italic:
Find What: (?<=\()(.+?)(?=\))
Change to: $1
Find Format: [Leave Blank]
Change Format: Your italics character styleParticipantOh good, I’m glad to hear that worked for you. I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for that bug with CC2014 in my eBook projects.
ParticipantThat is a good question, I’m pretty sure this is not possible straight out of InDesign and you will need to find a developer or company that could help you with horizontal scrolling. What you are seeing currently is how most images on an e-readers are set to display by most developers out there, everyone fits them to the view port. I want to say that you might have to look into non-linear content in ePub3 to do something like what you are wanting, but even then I’m not sure if it can do everything you are wanting. This is something that will need to be hand coded by an ebook developer and I might call up eBook Architects or Aptara to see if they can help you achieve this and let you know what is or isn’t possible.
eBook Architects: https://ebookarchitects.com/
Aptara: https://www.aptaracorp.com/ParticipantTrue, you would have to export it as an .idml file before you could open it in CC. No worries, I understand about the NDA and wouldnt want to get you in any trouble. I was going to say that it sounds like a white space issue at the end of the document and was going to check for overflow text, just thinking there might be some page breaks or just a long run of hard returns that might be at the end that could be causing that. I haven’t run across this personally so I’m just trying to shoot some ideas of things to look for at the end of the document that could be causing this. That’s interesting that KindleGen stripped it out.
ParticipantNo problem James, I’m glad to hear that worked for you!
ParticipantInteresting. Does the ePub have the same issues when you export it from the previous version of CC? Also, could you post a link from Dropbox or Google Drive to your InDesign file?
ParticipantJames,
One way, which I have playing with the last few days, is using Oxygen XML Editor. It allows you to, without unzipping the ePub, modify the ePub file (it even has ePubCheck built in so you can make sure its valid). You might try opening up your ePub, adding underscores or hyphens in place of spaces in the file names and in the links found in the toc.ncx, content.opf, and the table of contents HTML files and then just save your changes, run validation, and then you should be done. It might be tedious but probably better than starting over. If you are comfortable with zipping and unzipping your ePub, you might also try finding a script that you can replace the spaces in the file names with underscores/hyphens, and either modifying the links by hand or running a regex on each file or files (using TextEdit, Sublime Text, or another text editor found under this list https://www.digitalbookworld.com/resources-going-from-indesign-to-ebook/#editing) to replace those spaces in the hyperlinks.
Oxygen XML download: https://www.oxygenxml.com/download.html
Using Oxygen XML to edit your ePub: https://www.oxygenxml.com/xml_editor/epub.htmlSigil might also work, I’ve heard it does some weird things to code (it has WYSIWYG functionality for those who dont know HTML/CSS), but I’ve never used it.
Sigil: https://code.google.com/p/sigil/Best of luck to you!
ParticipantRegarding fixed layout looking fine in iBooks vs ADE, it really does come down to support for fixed layout, which ADE does not, you would think with the direction Adobe is heading with InDesign that ADE would have better support for files that InDesign could produce, but unfortunately that isn’t the case.
For the column width you are trying to accomplish, I don’t think you can do it straight from an InDesign export (I might be wrong though), for that you would probably have to go into the ePub file after export and change the margin-right and margin-left in the CSS class for those paragraphs you are referring to.
ParticipantAre you using the Kindle Plug-in for InDesign or are you exporting an ePub and converting with KindleGen (running the ePub through Kindle Previewer would do the same)? Off the top of my head I don’t remember having an issue like this but odd things do happen from time to time, what version of InDesign are you using? If it’s an ePub that you are converting, would you mind if I look at the file to see what CSS was exported?
ParticipantI think I understand what you are asking, but I’m pretty sure you are going to have to go with a fixed layout to have the outside margins your client is wanting.
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