I have a suggestion not to use long file-names instead use a small, easy to read names. Also try not to use any special characters i.e. ~!@#$%^&*()-=+[{]}\|;:'”/?.>,< as these symbols reserve some place in the Operating Systems’ coding.

You will get numerous error messages on PC if any of these character is used somewhere in the file-name, whereas on MAC, these are ignored sometimes by the MAC OS. One might not get any error on a MAC but might get errors on PC with the same file.

Rather than copying or pasting or downloading the stuff from the net and using it straight away, try to rename the file if the name is too long or contains special characters.

Remember the Golden days of DOS where 8.3 was a file-naming standard :)

I remember there was something similar to this but I don’t remember the proper link.

Here is the solution that will work perfectly than any other trick. Try this:
For the Opening Paragraph Style add some little values to it:
Make the Rule Above under the Paragraph Rules;
give an offset of 2in;
Check the “Keep in Frame” option
make the Colour to none and Weight to 0pt.

Thanks in advance, I know that was amazing…

can you give some text example. Also the vowels or long-vowels etc.

Hi Rogier, If it is the static text that you want to repeat, i.e. “Item Number”, please follow the steps below:

1. Create a Text Box and enable the “Numbered List”
2. Go to the “Bullets and Numbering” options
3. In the “Numbering Style” section, Go to the Input Text box in front of the “Number:” where it is written “^#.^t”
4. Type the text you want before the “^” caret and delete the “.^t” (if not needed), for example: “Item number ^#” and click OK
5. Line numbering will not work if there is no text in front of it, therefore, insert “End Nested Style Here” from the “Type > Insert Special Character > Other” menu. i.e. making fool of the InDesign.
6. Now the numbering will work, simply enter hard return.

Abbas, could you send me the InDesign, preferably CS5 or an IDML as mentioned by you in the below link:

https://s27.postimg.org/gumqxcelv/Grep_style_3.gif

on this forum or on my personal email address: “masoodahmad@inbox.com

I’m trying to incorporate the codes and have achieved a bit of it.

Erwan, your query cannot be processed with the GREP as it do not support the codes for Languages. If there could be anything like:

[Language(Indonesian)]
or
[^Language(Indonesian)]

then your query could have been resolved. Else, you have to use the Find/Change. Meanwhile, I’ll try to dig out something.

The best way, I think, David Blatner or Michael Murphy can show us some trick or code to achieve this.

Hi Abbas, I have tried to write a code to minimize the manual work and have included the basic latin characters used normally. I have not taken the complete list of special characters. Try to populate the GREP code to work wonders. As I said earlier that the code has been tested on CS5, but that was on MAC, however, I test the code at home on ME and tweaked it a little. Please check the InDesign file which contains the Urdu text, paragraph style and a character style:

https://ftf-1118.yousendit.com/download/1/E3E436DE339849CE/65b7b44b39ab98da7ac1e91a4677bd9289763147/R2L-ParaStyle-With-L2R-CharStyle.indd?download_id=4710108915&user_locale=en&id=2227692811&ufid=E3E436DE339849CE&file=R2L-ParaStyle-With-L2R-CharStyle.indd

The tweaked codes are also listed below:

Code1:
([\x{0023}-\x{0026}]|[\x{002A}-\x{002C}]|[\x{0030}-\x{0039}]|[\x{003F}-\x{005A}]|[\x{0061}-\x{007A}]|[\x{00A9}])+

Code2:
([!”‘()-./\:;<=>\[\]^_`~\{|\}]+(?=[\x{0023}-\x{0026}]|[\x{002A}-\x{002C}]|[\x{0030}-\x{0039}]|[\x{003F}-\x{005A}]|[\x{0061}-\x{007A}]|[\x{00A9}]))+

Code3:
((?<=[\x{0023}-\x{0026}]|[\x{002A}-\x{002C}]|[\x{0030}-\x{0039}]|[\x{003F}-\x{005A}]|[\x{0061}-\x{007A}]|[\x{00A9}])[!”‘()-./\:;<=>\[\]^_`~\{|\}]+)+

Code4:
([\x{0023}-\x{0026}]|[\x{002A}-\x{002C}]|[\x{0030}-\x{0039}]|[\x{003F}-\x{005A}]|[\x{0061}-\x{007A}]|[\x{00A9}]|[!”‘()-./\:;<=>\[\]^_~\{|\}])([\x{0023}-\x{0026}]|[\x{002A}-\x{002C}]|[\x{0030}-\x{0039}]|[\x{003F}-\x{005A}]|[\x{0061}-\x{007A}]|[\x{00A9}]|[!"'()-./\:;<=>\[\]^_~\{|\}])

Apart from this, you can apply the character style manually on the left overs. Please let me know if you got something better.

Hello Alexandro,

If I have not misinterpret, you need a script to create an Index. I think Indiscripts have something for you, also listed other useful links:

https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2011/11/indexmatic-frequently-asked-questions

https://creativepro.com/building-an-index-using-character-styles-or-external-word-list.php

https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/lists_indexes.html