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March 25, 2016 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Em Space, possible to define in Paragraph Styles, Indents and Spacing #83409
Ari Singer
MemberI thought about your question and came up with an unconventional method.
Why not use bullets?
Define a bullet in your paragraph style. Instead of the standard ellipse, the glyph should be the uppercase letter ‘M’ of that font. Give it a character style with the color [None] applied. And that’s it! As you resize the paragraph, the uppercase M ‘bullet’ gets resized with it!
March 25, 2016 at 1:47 pm in reply to: Footnote to be placed next to the text not at the bottom #83408MemberYes, there’s a free script for that by Peter Kahrel. You can find it here: https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/sidenotes.html
March 24, 2016 at 2:27 pm in reply to: Script to print a page containing certain paragraph or character styles #83376MemberI think you can work around with a Table of Contents with the original style applied.
MemberCan you please explain why the regular Find Format/Change Format doesn’t work?
MemberFunny! I just had the same exact problem a few days ago.
So this is what I did:
First, of course, I mapped all the Word styles to their InDesign counterpart. Then when I placed it, I had a mess of fonts and sizes (even worse than your Arial…). So this is what I did:
I knew that the only local overrides that I want to retain are Bold and Italic. So I quickly did a Find/Change to Find Format: Bold, and Change Format: ‘Bold’ character style. Then I did the same with italics to my ‘Italics’ character style. (I have these two Find/Change queries saved already, so it takes a second to run).
Then when this is done, I select all the text in the frame (Ctrl+A) and hit the ‘Clear Overrides in Selection’ button on the bottom of the Paragraph Styles panel. And wallah! everything was just the way it was supposed to be!
P.S. If you have more local overrides that you want to retain (such as Underline etc.) just do a Find/Change query for that as well.
Hope this helps.
March 22, 2016 at 8:13 pm in reply to: Anyone laid out a membership directory? I need your wisdom! #83237MemberStlyes, styles, stlyes.
MemberThanks. I know that I lose all local formatting, but as a careful InDesign user I never use local formatting only through character styles, which don’t get lost when applying Find/Change.
MemberThank you so much! But I have one question. Why go thru the trouble of adding a tab thru Find/Change? Why not just use the same GREP find expression, not to replace with anything, just to change the format of that paragraph to the ‘footnotes 2’ paragraph style that is completely indented?
MemberThank you so much! Would you please care translating the GREP expression into simple English? Thanks!
MemberThanks, but Optical Margin Alignment is not intended for this purpose.
MemberThe solution is very simple! And I know because I have the same issues when typesetting Hebrew text. I’m not sure if this works in the regular version of InDesign or only in the Middle Eastern version, but I believe you have the ME version anyway.
Create a character style with only one attribute applied: Go into the character style settings, then into the ‘Middle Eastern Character Format’ pane, and set up ‘Character Direction’ to ‘Left-to-Right’. Save the style, and name it anything you like such as ‘Left-to-Right’ etc.
Then go into the settings of your paragraph style and create a new GREP style. In the ‘Apply Style’ pane select your ‘Right-to-Left’ character style that you just created, and the ‘To Text’ pane leave at the default of ‘\d+’ (which means: ‘any digit one or more times’).
Save the paragraph style, and that’s it! The numbers should be fixed now without having to actually change the numbers which is definitely a bad idea!
MemberDone.
MemberI’m so sorry for driving you crazy, it was my mistake! When saving the script in Notepad I forgot to change the seting from ‘Text Document’ to ‘All Files’! Now it works beautifully! Thank you very much!
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