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  • in reply to: Is it possible to control Type on a Path Options via styles? #92416
    Chris Court
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    As an addendum to this… Object/Paths/Reverse Path seems to have the same effect as Flip in Type on a Path options. Its still not something I can control using styles (far as I can tell), but at least I can set a keyboard shortcut for it now.

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    in reply to: Is it possible to control Type on a Path Options via styles? #92164
    Chris Court
    Member

    Alas, I thought as much. Thanks for the confirmation, David.

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    in reply to: Is it possible to control Type on a Path Options via styles? #92155
    Chris Court
    Member

    What I’d like to achieve is to be able to set the “Flip” option of the Type on a Path options via a paragraph style. I’m not seeing a way to do that (although it seems like the type of thing that ought to be controllable via styles), but hey, it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve missed something.

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    in reply to: Is it possible to control Type on a Path Options via styles? #92148
    Chris Court
    Member

    Anyone?

    in reply to: Pruning plugins #89437
    Chris Court
    Member

    That has done the trick.

    Thank you!

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    in reply to: GREP help requested #80231
    Chris Court
    Member

    Fan of inDesign GREP that I am, this seems to me to be an ideal use-case for nested styles. Am I missing something?

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    in reply to: El Capitan issues with inDesign #78493
    Chris Court
    Member

    Well, that seemed to fix it. Thanks Michael!

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    in reply to: Maximum size for GREP styles? #78386
    Chris Court
    Member

    No thoughts on this, guys?

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    in reply to: GREP Question #78290
    Chris Court
    Member

    Alicia,

    ~r will search for the ® character

    Then you just need to change the position attribute of the Basic Character Format panel of the Change Format field to superscript.

    Off the top of my head, I can’t think of a reason not to do this as a GREP style, rather than a Find/Change, but whatever works for you, I guess :-)

    Also, [bB]est [cC]hoice will be a slightly more efficient way of finding those words than (b|B)est (c|C)hoice, according to my well-thumbed copy of Peter Kahrel’s Grep in Indesign, which, incidentally, I can highly recommend as a reference for anyone wanting to learn more about GREP or using it on a regular basis.

    Best
    C

    in reply to: GREP Question #78288
    Chris Court
    Member

    Dean… On forums like these it’s usual to start a new thread for a new question, but while we’re here…

    Jdsc|Jfar|Jnl|Jsf|Tdsc|Tfar|Tnl|Tsf|Tjdsc|Tjfar|Tjnl|Tjsf|Tc|Ti|Tu

    will find the codes you mention, however you will have an issue with the word “Tuesday” for example, as it contains “Tu”. To get around this try

    \<Jdsc\>|\<Jfar\>|\<Jnl\>|\<Jsf\>|\<Tdsc\>|\<Tfar\>|\<Tnl\>|\<Tsf\>|\<Tjdsc\>|\<Tjfar\>|\<Tjnl\>|\<Tjsf\>|\<Tc\>|\<Ti\>|\<Tu\>

    Which finds your codes only if they are discrete words, not if they are contained within other words.

    Hope that helps.

    C

    PS. Alicia, I have a fix for your second question, but am at work right now… will answer you asap

    in reply to: GREP Question #78279
    Chris Court
    Member

    Should be easy. Try this GREP:

    ^.*your_phrase.*$

    That looks for the start of a paragraph, followed by zero or more characters, followed by your phrase, followed by zero or more characters, followed by the end of the paragraph. So… if it sees your phrase, it will select the whole paragraph.

    Then just tell the Change Format to set the color that you’re wanting.

    Hope that helps.
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    in reply to: Locating the start of a sentence with GREP #78097
    Chris Court
    Member

    Thanks for the explanation and suggestion, Peter. Every time I think I’m just getting a grip on GREP, something like this comes along and trips me up. All part of the fun :-D

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    in reply to: GREP incorrectly shifting italics over in found text #77845
    Chris Court
    Member

    If you’re using a GREP find/replace to make changes to the captions, then I assume they must share a similar form?

    In the example you gave, a Nested style like this should do the trick:

    Style CAPTION_REG through 1 ,
    Style CAPTION_ITAL up to 1 ,
    Style CAPTION_REG through end nested style character

    Of course, I’m not sure what you have named your styles, but you get the idea… apply regular caption char. style until the first comma, italic caption char. style until the next comma, then regular caption char. style until the end of the caption.

    Apologies if I’m missing something.

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    in reply to: GREP incorrectly shifting italics over in found text #77839
    Chris Court
    Member

    If you use a nested style (or GREP style, for that matter) rather than using a manual override to apply the italic character style, then it will solve your issue.

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    Chris Court
    Member

    Wow, that did it. You guys are complete rockstars!!

    I found that non-inDesign versions of GREP have a -v “invert switch” command, which I think may have gotten me there. However – and please correct me if I’m wrong – it doesn’t seem to be part of inDesign’s GREP spec.

    Thanks again for your help, David and Jongware. This place is such a great resource.

    Best
    Chris

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