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David BlatnerKeymasterNo idea what that could mean. Perhaps try rebuilding your preferences.
But I wonder if the plug-in that you’re using might also be causing some problems… does it have anything to do with images?David BlatnerKeymasterYeah, that’s a pain. Here is how to make the bullet wrap:
https://creativepro.com/create-perfectly-curved-hanging-indents.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterThat’s really weird, Denis. Can you email me your file and a sample of the csv file?
David BlatnerKeymasterAlso, check out the table of contents movies in my lynda.com InDesign Essential Training title, plus:
The InDesigner – Episode 34: Long Documents, Part 2 – Tables of Contents
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https://creativepro.com/using-a-numbered-list-to-create-chapter-numbers-in-a-toc.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterI think there is a basic misunderstanding here. If you are just trying to make the word Chapter and the number bold (or whatever different style), then you should probably just set it up with a Nested Style, not a Grep Style. Nested Styles are good for things like “from the beginning of the paragraph to…” and they’re way easier to create. Do a search for Nested Styles to learn more.
Also, at the beginning of this thread you said you wanted it to apply to the word chapter, then the number, then a dash, then the title of the chapter. That’s why it was so tricky. If you just want to search for “Chapter X” (where X is a number, you could use the grep:
Chapter \d+?which searches for the word Chapter followed by a space followed by one or more numbers.David BlatnerKeymasterI think there is a basic misunderstanding here. If you are just trying to make the word Chapter and the number bold (or whatever different style), then you should probably just set it up with a Nested Style, not a Grep Style. Nested Styles are good for things like “from the beginning of the paragraph to…” and they’re way easier to create. Do a search for Nested Styles to learn more.
Also, at the beginning of this thread you said you wanted it to apply to the word chapter, then the number, then a dash, then the title of the chapter. That’s why it was so tricky. If you just want to search for “Chapter X” (where X is a number, you could use the grep:
Chapter \d+?which searches for the word Chapter followed by a space followed by one or more numbers.David BlatnerKeymasterNo way in InDesign right now. That’s an HTML thing. I’d take a look at Muse or Edge.
David BlatnerKeymasterMaybe rebuild InDesign Preferences, too…?
David BlatnerKeymasterYeah, like Gert, I export to RTF regularly and have not had that problem. I would try things like clearing up possible corruption by exporting to IDML and opening that IDML file and then exporting. Another idea: export the story as InDesign Tagged Text, then import that tagged text into a new document, then export as RTF.
I would also be curious about if TextExporter from rorohiko is any different.
David BlatnerKeymasterThat is quite a quandary. One method would be to:
1. Search for left and apply a character style that does nothing
2. Search for right and change it to “left”
3. Search for text in that character style and change it to right (without the character style)
You could do this all “at once” with findchangebytext script, or with automatication.com’s MultiFindChangeDavid BlatnerKeymasterMy first theory is that it’s not inDesign which is adding the tabs, but rather Word, on opening. (But maybe I’m just like a doting parent who can’t imagine finding fault with a child.) ;)
Try opening the RTF with something else (like TextEdit on the Mac)?
David BlatnerKeymasterNo problem, but I don’t recall seeing that anywhere. You might check the video training on ebooks and epub at lynda.com
September 7, 2013 at 5:27 pm in reply to: Break one HUGE story into dozens of separate text boxes #65202David BlatnerKeymasterOne option might be to set the Keep Options for all the paragraphs so that they all start in a new frame. Then you could use this script:
https://creativepro.com/splitting-up-threaded-stories-into-separate-frames.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterHere’s another option:
https://creativepro.com/delete-page-document.phpDavid BlatnerKeymasterClever idea to make an IDLK file. I figured making any kind of idlk file would work, but no? Drat.
You are not alone in your challenge; many InDesign workgroups need similar things. But question: Why can’t you move them? Why do you need to copy them?
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