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Ari Singer
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MemberAs I said, I stole it from an article by David Blatner. And to quote him: “Next, make sure they’re the last thing in the word by putting a \> (backslash greater than) after it.”
MemberI don’t know about the bug, but to fix the ordinals through GREP, you can do this:
Find What:
(?<=\d)(th|st|nd|rd)\>
Change Format: SuperscriptOr, even better, use the above code in a GREP style, with a superscript character style applied.
Picasso said: “A good artist copies. A great artist steals.” So this is from where I stole this: https://creativepro.com/quick-grep-to-superscript-ordinals.php
MemberPeter, I immediately knew that this problem is a good candidate for your trick of your book (pun intended). I just couldn’t figure out how to apply it to this situation. Thanks for coming in to share your advice.
While I’m at it, I have to thank you for your great book on GREP (I just recently purchased it from Google Play and read it), it’s an amazing book and I recommend it to anyone who wants to have a solid understanding of GREP.
MemberYes, David. I do know that. I was just referring to the overall workspace of the document.
MemberJust want to add one important bit (as I can’t edit my previous post): This won’t find the è if it’s at the beginning of the paragraph, to make sure that the è at the beginning of a paragraph is also captured, use this:
(^.+?|.?)(\x{00E8})(.+?$)MemberYou both have a very good point, but that’s why I pointed out the fact that Microsoft Word has more votes than Muse, Google Docs, InCopy and Bridge combined!
So the question is: Why do we use Word at all?!
And the obvious answer is: because that’s what we get from contributors and we have no choice but to work with it. And once we’re at this point, the designer him/herself will fall back to use Word for their own projects because they have no incentive to get to know InCopy.
MemberYou can do this:
Find What:
(^.+?)(\x{00E9})(.+?$)
Change To:$1e$3
Find Format: ItalicThen make sure the ‘scope’ of the selection is to the entire story, and start hitting ‘Change All’ again and again and again, until the popup dialog box says ‘Search is completed. 0 replacement(s) made.’. As long as the number on the dialog box is 1 or more, it means that it is still found an è, but once it says 0 it means that all è have been replaced with a regular e.
MemberAre you talking about print ads or digital ads?
MemberI don’t understand why you should use RGB if you print it digitally. Even if <em<you’ll never be too certain how it will come out it’s arguably still gonna look more accurate when you use a CMYK colorspace that when using a RGB colorspace.
MemberAre you sure that you have the Middle Eastern version?
MemberI agree with Dwayne. I’m afraid you have a character style applied without knowing.
(And yes, it’s ‘alt’ on the PC…)
MemberWhat do you mean by ‘find all the regular è characters that are in an otherwise all italic paragraph’? Do you want to find only that character? Or to find an italic paragraph that also has that character in it?
MemberI was thinking the same thing. That’s why I asked him if it does find some paragraphs. If it doesn’t, then it’s one of two options. Either…
A: Some characters in the paragraph (might even be a space character) are not italic, so GREP doesn’t catch the entire paragraph.
or
B: The specified font does not use the strict term ‘Italic’ (such has Helvetica Neue which has ’36 Thin Italic’ for example). So you need to make sure that the term of italic used in said font is the exact same term used in the Find Format options.
MemberThis is interesting to me, as the
.wildcard should catch any character, no matter the form.Does it catch some paragraphs and some not? Or does it not catch any paragraph at all?
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