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Ari Singer
MemberCopy one page of text (from a page that has the problematic quotes), paste it into a new document with the formatting retained, and save the new InDesign file. Then upload it to Google Drive or Dropbox or any file hosting server that you like and share the link to this document on this post. If you’re concerned with privacy you can set up so that anyone wanting to see the file has to get permission from you.
MemberThe entire table is regarded as one character in a paragraph, so you manipulate it as such.
Insert your cursor in the paragraph immediately above the table and hit the down-arrow key (or in the paragraph immediately below and hit the up-arrow key), you’ll notice a huge blinking cursor to the side of the entire table, this means the table is selected. Then you change the position by playing with the regular paragraph settings (found in the paragraph panel or control panel) such as left indent, right indent, space before, space after, alignment etc.
MemberThe option/alt+click method is basically the shortcut to applying the style and clearing the overrides.
The reason it worked in David’s course is probably because the text had no style applied to them as opposed to yours which has the Body Text style applied to them.
MemberI noticed that some settings in InDesign (such as Table styles, or footnote formatting options) are merely ‘recommendations’, and get very ‘intimidated’ by other styles.
For example when you set up in the footnote options a paragraph style to use, when you create a new blank footnote it will use that footnote, but if you copy styled text into that footnote, it will stay with the source style.
I’m afraid the same happens with table styles. They merely ‘recommend’ what style to use in a new blank cell but they get ‘intimidated’ by an incoming style. So to fix that, select all body rows and option/alt-click on the Body Text cell style to force the style change.
MemberMake sure that:
You’re using GREP Find/Change. Not Text or Glyph.
The ‘scope’ of the search is set up correctly to entire story.
There are no settings in the Find Format field.
MemberWould you mind to please send me one page of the document so I can check it out? I should be able to find the problem fast.
MemberI doubt that you can do it in one expression, but you should use the FindChangeByList script to automate it. You can even finish up the script with two GREP expressions to automatically find any digits preceding a slash and apply superscript and then find any digits following a slash and apply subscript (But it would be better to use an OpenType font that provides ‘real’ fractions).
MemberDo a GREP Find/Change like this:
Find What:
\x{0027}
Change To:\x{2019}MemberAnd I believe that in the coming months we’ll see the CC 2016 release.
MemberSeems like a real puzzle. I can only think of 2 things. Either the file is corrupted, in which case you should save the file as an IDML and then open it back to see if it got fixed. Or maybe it has to do with the blending mode of certain objects which makes it appear below an object when it is actually in front.
MemberMake a separate paragraph style for each kind of entry (such as’section head’, ‘name’, ‘address’, ‘tel’ and ‘website’), Then apply the following keep settings for each paragraph style respectively.
For ‘name’: ‘Keep with Next: 2 Lines’ and check ‘Keep Lines Together’ and select ‘All Lines in Paragraph’.
For ‘address’: check ‘Keep with Previous’, ‘Keep with Next: 1 Lines’ and check ‘Keep Lines Together’ and select ‘All Lines in Paragraph’.
For ‘tel’: check ‘Keep with Previous’ and check ‘Keep Lines Together’ and select ‘All Lines in Paragraph’.
For ‘website’: check ‘Keep with Previous’ and check ‘Keep Lines Together’ and select ‘All Lines in Paragraph’.
For ‘section head’: ‘Keep with Next: 3 Lines’ and check ‘Keep Lines Together’ and select ‘All Lines in Paragraph’.
MemberThe reason the search doesn’t pick it up is because there are no characters between the tags, and the search only finds when there is some characters in between.
To clean up these instances just do a Find/Change like this:
Find What:<i></i>
Change To: Leave Empty
Find Format: Leave Empty
Change Format: LEAVE EMPTY (if you don’t clear this field, no replacements will be made).MemberI could help you with a simple GREP query, but for that I want you to provide me with some info.
Please select the quotation mark that you don’t want, and open the Glyphs panel. The quotation mark that you selected should be highlighted there. Hover your mouse over that glyph in the Glyphs panel and a small popup should appear with some info. In it you’ll find the word ‘Unicode’ followed by a 4 digit number. Please provide me with that number. Then do the same for the other quotation mark (which you do want to be used, and provide me that Unicode value as well.
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