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David BlatnerVerdana is a “proportional width” font. That means some characters are more wide and other are more narrow. So 50 “i” is going to be a very different width than 50 “m”
So there is no way to make a 50 character wide frame.
David BlatnerThere is no easy way to do this. You could use Obi-wan’s grep trick to insert paragraph returns at the particular spot on each line (I can show you how if you want), but it will take some time. InDesign is not designed to break after a certain number of characters.
An easy option would be to apply a mono-spaced font (like Courier) to all the text and make the text frame 50 characters wide.
David BlatnerProbably easiest to create a table of contents or index, then copy and paste it into a spreadsheet… that wouldn’t be linked automatically, but wouldn’t take too much work to get into Excel every now and then.
There are probably third-party tools (EasyCatalog?) that let you do some of this, but I’m not sure.
David BlatnerHere’s a good comparison between Word and InDesign:
https://creativepro.com/why-use-indesign-instead-of-ms-word.php
David BlatnerI can’t think of any way to do this without using Acrobat javascripting (see pdfscripting.com)
However, I’m concerned by your comment about MSOs: I don’t think those are going to work in PDF. Just fixed layout epub or publish online. And of course a lot of other interactive stuff (buttons) often don’t work in PDF on tablet devices. OK?
David BlatnerIt appears to be this script:
https://www.kasyan.ho.com.ua/batch_process_scripts/batch_process_scripts_ver_1.html
David BlatnerHere’s some tips on doing that… be sure to read the Comments after the article:
https://creativepro.com/making-a-movie-poster.php
David BlatnerHi Philip, not sure why your post was held for moderation. But it’s clear now.
Yes, GREP can help! The easiest thing would likely be to use the GREP tab inside the Find/Change dialog box. For example, if you search for (?<=[\u])\d then it will find any single number that immediately follows any upper or lower case letter.
But: it's just a single number. If you have x13, it will only find "1"
More on the topic here:
https://creativepro.com/auto-format-superscript-and-subscript-numbers-using-grep-styles.php
or
https://creativepro.com/quick-grep-to-superscript-ordinals.php
David BlatnerAh, I found it… unfortunately it is a Lynda.com video and I think you need a membership to watch it:
https://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/214-Formatting-text-quickly-Apply-Next/85324/439035-4.html
The quick version is that you set up paragraph styles using “Next Style” and then use the Apply Style then Next feature (which you can build into an object style).
David BlatnerI actually have a great tip that will let you format the recipe in 2 steps, after you create the template. It is creating the template that is a little difficult… I thought I wrote this up somewhere but I cannot find it. Hold on…
David BlatnerNo way to change the Place Cursor (“place gun”) behavior. So it would be better to draw a frame which is aligned where you want it, then fill it with the image, and then use the Object > Fitting features to make the frame fit the image, or the image fit the frame.
David BlatnerWow, I never realized that Lakhs were written in such a different form! What are the rules? Always 3 at the right end? Then groups of 2?
David BlatnerTwo articles on footnotes, both require premium membership (they’re from InDesign Magazine:
https://creativepro.com/going-deep-footnotes.php
and
https://creativepro.com/review-footwork.php
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