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Chris Thompson
MemberYes, easily achieved – just select the column (click at top edge of column or use the menu Table-Select-Column) and apply left/centre/right justification or all sorts of other text attributes.
Chris
MemberDitto a vote for tables generally. Other advantages: easier to resize/adjust later, more formatting options (dividing lines that stay with the text if you change it, shaded columns instead of floating blocks of colour – again think about later adjustments), and you can wrap text within a cell without manual intervention.
Chris.
MemberIs this spam? Appears to be advertising a writing service, using not-very-good English.
Does the forum need a “report” button to flag this sort of thing to the moderators?
MemberHave you tried Mangal with World-Ready Paragraph Composer switched on?
See https://creativepro.com/indesign-cs4s-hidden-world-ready-composer.php
and many other articles.Is “Aryan2Bilingual” a Unicode font? I looked for it on the web, but couldn’t download one to check.
If you temporarily change the Hindi text from Aryan2Bilingual to a font that does not contain Devanagari characters, what do you see?Good luck,
Chris.MemberBest suggestion – don’t nest the tables, just let them run consecutively, with zero space before/after each table.
Then there are no really deep (tall) table rows to waste space.Good luck,
ChrisMember(Later, after editing opportunity disappeared)
… and the MacRoman code points thing would account for Dwayne’s experience in Quark days between Mac/PC, as the Windows fonts wouldn’t contain the code point ligatures at all.MemberI was under the impression that the use of ligatures was font-dependent. i.e. if the font contains a pre-made ligature for a particular combination of letters, InDesign will use it. If not, it won’t attempt to “artificially” make them appear as a ligature.
Testing with CS6, and using ffi with different fonts in the same text box, I get:
Arial: no letters join, the i still has its dot
Minion Pro: all join, and the dot of the i disappears
Arno Pro: all join, and the dot of the i disappears
Myriad Pro: all join, and the dot of the i disappears
Times: the first f is separate, but the second f joins on to the i, and the dot of the i disappearsSo I’d conclude that my Arial doesn’t contain any ligatures, the three “Pro” fonts do contain a wide selection, and Times only a limited selection.
Looking through the InDesign glyphs panel for each font, if there is a pre-made ligature, it appears with an OpenType annotation if you hover the mouse over: “Standard Ligatures (liga)”
In pre-Unicode, pre-OpenType days, there were code points in some character sets for the fi and fl ligatures, e.g. 222 and 223 for MacRoman.
I’m open to correction!
Chris.May 10, 2015 at 8:59 pm in reply to: How to Get "Show Import Options" without using File, Place #75208MemberSeems odd that Censhare can’t do this – their own website promotes applications in the publishing industry (https://www.censhare.com/en/industries/publishers), with some heavyweight companies as customers.
AND Censhare even have a page on InDesign (https://www.censhare.com/en/insight/overview/article/file-placement-via-drag-and-drop) where it says “Use case: Same behavior of Adobe InDesign desired or required with censhare and working locally”Maybe the consultants need to read the manual?
Don’t know.Good luck,
Chris.MemberTwo thoughts:
1. are they custom shortcuts or the built-in ones?
If custom, it is possible to switch between sets of shortcuts – maybe that’s happened inadvertently.2. Do you have any plugins/add-ons that add panels to the interface?
I’ve got one which seems to disable shortcuts while the panel is showing (flyout from the long set of panels), but the shortcuts come back when a different panel is showing and the problem one isn’t.Good luck,
ChrisMemberGree….tings!
A quick search suggests that there is no such feature or plugin in InDesign.
I guess traditional workflows have separated the two groups of people – the designers with InDesign on one hand, and the writers with Word/InCopy†/other word processors on the other hand.
†I’m not even sure if InCopy has an auto-suggest feature.Good luck,
Chris.MemberFor an interesting take on interface design, and not just on computers, I can recommend the book “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald Norman. It’s a bit old, but the underlying principles are very interesting, and applicable to all sorts of design work.
I find his treatment of doors is funny – if a door requires an instruction manual (i.e. the word “push” or “pull”), then the handles are designed wrong.Good luck,
Chris.MemberJust been trying it out using a style for the TOC contents, you can put most of what’s wanted into the style, including the centre tab that Colleen suggested in post 2, but there seems to be no way to get the style to insert the leading tab mark needed before the page number itself.
MemberShould be easy to set up in a Para style for the TOC listing.
Chris.
MemberSo a kind of cascading styles thing?
i.e. one single object style that says “header in style 1, text in style 2, table in style 3 and more text in style 4 (or 2 again)” ?
I’m not sure that’s possible.
You can have table cell styles defined under a table style, and paragraph styles defined under a table cell style. That might do some of what you want.Chris.
MemberCan we have a bit more information please. What are you trying to do?
Do you have graphic objects inside table cells? Do you need to set a style for an attribute which cannot be included in a Cell Style?
Chris.
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