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Ari Singer
MemberThat’s because space before only takes effect when it’s under another line of text, not when it’s the first thing on the frame.
But there’s a trick for that. Define a paragraph style, and in the style add a paragraph rule above. The color should be [None]. Make sure to turn on ‘Keep in Frame’.
Now just increase the offset value to your liking. The more you increase the offset value, the more it’ll be pushed down (because Keep in Frame forces it to go down)
MemberThe reason it doesn’t pick up words with an apostrophe is because the ‘any word character’ wildcard (
\w) excludes an apostrophe. So the obvious solution is to add an apostrophe in the string before the\wfollowed by a?which translates to: Find an apostrophe, which may or may not be there, followed by any word character one or more times. So this is the final string:(?<=\. )'?\w+? \wMemberI think the culprit is having two spaces instead of one after the period (which some old timers still do). To fix it fix run the ready GREP Find/Change query “Multiple Space to Single Space”.
Or if you don’t want to delete the spaces you can enter this string in the GREP style:
\. +\K\w+?which basically tells it to look even if there are more than one space.MemberTo post a screenshot upload the images to any free image-hosting website, and post the link here.
MemberBut were you successful in trashing the preferences in the end?
MemberTry resetting your preferences.
Close the program.
Hold down the Command-Option-Shift-Ctrl keys (on Windows, hold down Control-Alt-Shift) while you start the program up again.
While the program starts up, keep the keys held down until the splash screen appears along with an alert offering to “Delete InDesign Preferences File?”. Release the keys and click Yes.
When you rebuild preferences, you lose any custom application defaults you might have made in the Preferences dialog box, and any Presets you created (custom PDF presets, Document presets, etc.).
For more info, see this post https://creativepro.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences.php
MemberTry this: save your file as an .idml and then open it back up to see if it got fixed. Saving to IDML can fix a lot of document issues.
MemberA video is worth a million words. This seems like a real puzzle to me. I’ve never had this experience before. I think we’ll have to leave for David to figure out.
MemberWhen you go into preview mode do you still see the text or not?
If not, that means it’s set up to be non-printing. So make sure it’s not on a layer that’s set up to non-printing.
MemberPlease explain yourself more clearly. It’s hard for me to understand your problem. Thanks.
MemberTry creating a brand-new file with a master page and one item on the master page. Then try to override that object on the page. And let us know if it also happens then.
MemberI’m afraid your preferences are corrupt. To reset them follow these steps:
Close the program
Hold down the Command-Option-Shift-Ctrl keys (on Windows, hold down Control-Alt-Shift) while you start the program up again.
While the program starts up, keep the keys held down until the splash screen appears along with an alert offering to “Delete InDesign Preferences File?”. Release the keys and click Yes.
When you rebuild preferences, you lose any custom application defaults you might have made in the Preferences dialog box, and any Presets you created (custom PDF presets, Document presets, etc.).
For more info, see this post https://creativepro.com/rebuilding-indesign-preferences.php
MemberUnfortunately, GREP does not work this way.
MemberI was afraid from the beginning that it’s a font problem, but I don’t have said font to try it out.
By the way, I have better luck when using the ’em’ tag instead of ‘i’, and ‘strong’ instead of ‘b’. Look closely on your post and you’ll see what I mean…
MemberWhen you apply a character style via a GREP style, InDesign considers it as a ‘live’ character styles and not ‘fixed’. So basically, only the paragraph style ‘knows’ that certain text contain said character style, but if you select these text and look in the character style panel you’ll see that no character style is applied! So when Find/Change is looking for this character style (in your case, “highlight”) it doesn’t find it, because technically it’s not applied to the text. If you were to apply the “highlight” character manually then it would’ve found it.
So what do you do?
Simple. Let’s say your GREP style code is something like this:
\(.+?\)(which, by the way, selects all text in parentheses, parentheses included). Then just do a GREP Find/Change for this code. So it will look something like this:Find What:
\(.+?\)(or any string that you used in the GREP style)
Change To: Whatever you want
Find Format: LEAVE EMPTY This is very important! Because if you have it look for the “highlight” character style, nothing will be found! -
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