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Chris Thompson
MemberHello Goran,
Try:
replace the paragraph breaks in Word with line breaks (search for ^p, replace with ^n)
then copy – paste into InDesign.Or alternatively:
replace the paragraph breaks in Word with temporary text (search for ^p, replace with ZZZZ)
then copy – paste into InDesign
then in InDesign, replace ZZZZ with paragraph breaksGood luck,
Chris.April 12, 2019 at 3:15 am in reply to: how to flip a % symbol without flipping the original digits? #116037MemberTo add to the above, there’s another method:
If you change the text language to Arabic, the % sign moves to the left end of the digits from the right end.April 12, 2019 at 2:51 am in reply to: how to flip a % symbol without flipping the original digits? #116036MemberNo need for GREP.
If you select *only* the % sign, and then apply Character Direction = right-to-left, that should do it.MemberYou can do something similar with the Bookmarks function in Acrobat.
In essence:
1 create the document in InDesign, using Para styles for the headers/subheaders
2 export to PDF, with “create tagged PDF” selected
3 open in Acrobat and use the Bookmarks panel “new bookmarks from structure”Then the sidebar of the PDF contains the list of headings=bookmarks, and clicking a bookmark displays the relevant page.
More on PDF bookmarks here: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/page-thumbnails-bookmarks-pdfs.html
It’s been a long time since I did it for real, but I just tested the basic steps successfully with CS6 and Acrobat 9.
Good luck,
ChrisMemberHi Rhonda.
That doesn’t sound normal at all. I regularly work with much larger files than that, and I don’t see this effect. The standard advice is to export the file to IDML, and reopen that IDML file.
Otherwise, it might be worth reposting this query in the “General InDesign Topics” part of this forum, as this section “InDesign User Groups: doesn’t seem to get much visibility or activity.Good luck,
Chris.MemberHmm, the prospect of copy+paste is not very attractive, is it.
It seems you’re right, however you do it, at some point in the process, someone has to structure the two languages into sections (of 1 Hebrew word + 1 or more English words) that match.
Good luck!
MemberHas the translation already been done? Is the translation already lined up with the corresponding Hebrew in Word or some other program?
It seems to me to be a problem of structure. If you’ve got the “alignment” of the two languages, there should be some way of doing this, but it escapes me at the moment.
You could see the layout as a series of 2-row tables but each with variable numbers of columns. And tables might overcome the problem of the English running longer than the Hebrew, as the cell contents would wrap?
Mmm, rather you than me.Chris, thinking out loud but not getting very far.
MemberPatti – great. It only took me about an hour the first time I encountered the problem!
Turn Hyphenation off in Word (at least in my 2016 edition) is under the Tools menu .. Hyphenation .. Automatically hyphenate document.Chris.
MemberI’ve had this before when copy-pasting from Word.
When I turned off hyphenation in the Word document first, and then copy-pasted, I didn’t get the superfluous hyphens.
Microsoft being “helpful” I expect.Chris.
Edit: just noticed this was on a new reply to an old-ish thread.
January 16, 2019 at 1:54 am in reply to: Table of contents refuses to bring in certain headings #113672MemberI’ve had similar problems with the TOC failing to pick up styles on items in a table. However, this was an enormous table (spanning many pages) that had to be split in two because it would otherwise be above the 10000-row limit.
But it was only the items in the 2nd table that failed to appear in the TOC – all the items that should have appeared in the TOC were in one or other of the tables (none outside tables), and only the items in the 1st table appeared in the TOC.
I never did solve it, and my workaround was to open two windows, and loop through, repeatedly finding the style in one window, then manually updating the 2nd half of the TOC in the other window.
Chris.MemberPresumably it sees the 5 letters and the line of underscores as a single “word”, and this is too wide for the column/text box, and it won’t hyphenate.
What happens if you add a zero-width space / discretionary line break after every few underscores?Chris.
MemberIs there also a blue ^ below the line near the line of :::? If so, it could be index markers.
Edit: the list of Find text at https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/indesign/using/find-change.html shows that ^l is the code for an index marker.Does the Word doc have an index? Does it need to be recreated in ID? If so, leave them in!
Chris.
MemberSounds like you need to download the ME (Middle East) edition via the CC app. Also available if you have CS6.
Alternatively buy a plugin, World Tools for example.
Either route will allow you access to RTL binding, pages, RTL stories, the whole works.
Regards, Chris.
MemberFrench tends to use spaces before certain punctuation marks, so yes, you need a way to keep things together.
Two suggestions:
1. apply a “no break” GREP style for the combination of [any letter][space][colon].
I’m not a GREP expert, but I think
.:
would work as the GREP (any character, followed by any white space, followed by a colon).2. get the writer to use a “non-breaking space” (usually alt-space) in those situations.
(“Two points” / “deux-points” in French = “colon” in English)
Chris.
MemberJust had an email from Affinity, with a link to download the beta of Publisher. I had signed up for the beta, so I’m not sure if I can post that link here as it’s tied to my email address.
However, it’s downloadable from:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/publisher/Watch this space…
Regards, Chris. -
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