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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberYou can do a Find/Change to delete them all. Find: ^n (that’s the code for a forced line break) and leave the Change blank. Choose Document in the dropdown so it does the find/change in all the stories, rather than only the active one.
A bit of advice, sometimes I force a line break between words and delete the space between them. When I delete all forced line breaks then some words end up concatenated likethis. So instead of just deleting them, I usually replace all forced line breaks with a single space, then I do another Find/Change that changes all double spaces to a single space.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI’m not sure how you’d do the replace part, though. You can’t apply more than one type of formatting to the found set. Maybe first do the numerator and then search again and format the denominator?
But if I were you, I’d just invest the $75 for a copy of Dan Rodney’s Proper Fraction Pro, which can do the Find/Replace for you. (The free version only does on-the-fly formatting, as you type.) It’s a fantastic plug-in.
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberAndy, you can make InDesign show an immediate preview if you want, like how you said it used to work. Go to Preferences > Interface, and at the bottom in the Options area, change the setting for Live Screen Drawing from “Delayed” to “Immediate.”
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberWhich version of InDesign are you using? Later versions do better.
Have you tried creating and applying named numbered list styles to see if that makes a diff?
And when you open up the epub, can you see if a paragraph is getting replaced with a break symbol instead, perhaps?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberPooja you are being immensely helpful. I’m scribbling down everything you say to remember it. ;-D
Thank you! Are you coming to PePcon?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberIf you have a 50-page Word doc that has to go into your journal, then usually you place the Word file and Shift-click it in the layout to autoflow it. The reason you always place instead of copy/paste is because you have so much more control via the Word Import Options dialog box. Saves a ton of time. If you just need to grab a paragraph or two, then sure just copy/paste.
I cover this, plus dealing with footnotes and endnotes and other fun Word stuff ;-D in my lynda.com title, Using Word and InDesign Together.
https://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/Using-Word-InDesign-Together/122930-2.htmlSome people create text frames on the master page and then in the document page, you’d shift-click it in that frame. Other people let InDesign make the frames on the fly based on the margin and column guides. (Just shift-click on the doc page).
If the Word article has captions, a headline, a sidebar, etc., then the typical workflow is to place the whole thing, then you cut and paste from the placed story into those separate/new text frames.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Brady, sorry, I’m confused. “Not exporting to JPEG is an option.” … how is that an option?
Are you rasterizing the text frames on purpose from the Object Export Options dialog box?
What are these anchored text frames … pull quotes? captions?
If the text frames are anchored above line or custom (and not inline), then InDesign will not rasterize them automatically, and you should be able to get more control over their scaling by setting up Autogrow options for them in Text Frame Options.
But I don’t think you can get complete control over scalability of anchored text frames from within InDesign. You may need to edit the HTML/CSS file afterwards.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberAre you using CC? The latest version (9.2) of CC will rasterize inline anchored text frames. You get a warning about it when you export to EPUB if that’s the case. Does that sound familiar at all?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberSure, you can do this with nested styles I think.
First, make a character style that changes the font to Bold (and let’s call it Bold).
Then edit the paragraph style that you’re applying to these kinds of lines:
MISSES: S(6-8), M(10-12), L(14-16)Let’s say you’ve named that style “Sizes.” So you double-click the Sizes paragraph style, and then in the Drop Caps and Nested Styles, you add a series of Nested styles.
First one applies the char style None through 1 [space] (that is, in the last field, replace the default “Word” with an empty space, a tap on the spacebar).
Second one applies Bold through 1 Character (choose “character” from the menu for the last field)
Third one applies None through 1 [space]
Fourth one applies Bold through 1 CharacterThen just repeat that sequence of nested styles for as many times as you have sets of parens in a single paragraph. Note that this won’t work if you use spaces in the paragraph anywhere else but right before the sizes. For example, it wouldn’t work if instead of “MISSES” it said “KID’S CLOTHES”.
There may well be a devilishly clever way to do this with a GREP style, but this works just as well for the example given ;-D
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