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May 2, 2012 at 4:21 pm in reply to: GREP – how to 'add' a set of characters at the end of a set of digits?? #62116
Theunis De Jong
MemberWell, all a script could do is a simple find-and-replace, and you might as well do that right away. Store your change, so you can recall it again next time.
Object styles also cannot add text, so that's also a dead end.
May 2, 2012 at 1:18 pm in reply to: GREP – how to 'add' a set of characters at the end of a set of digits?? #62114MemberGREP styles cannot add text.
May 1, 2012 at 2:35 am in reply to: Spell Check – Can I tell InDesign that 2 separate words are actually 1 word? #62096MemberI'm not sure if it's possible to “Script” this – where it can pluck out the Ignored Words from the user dictionary …
How very odd. For User dictionaries you can call up lists of Added words and of Removed words, but not Ignored words!
This small script, for example, shows the list of added words per language:
x = [];
for (i=0; i<app.userDictionaries.length; i++)
x.push (app.userDictionaries[i].name+”: “+app.userDictionaries[i].addedWords.join(“; “));
alert (x.join('r'));But there is No Such Option for the ignored words!
MemberImport (“Place”, in correct InDesign terminology) always creates a link to the file, and it seems you don't want that.
As often with such requests, it's easy to write a script that does all of the “copy/paste” operations for you — but how would this script know what to copy and then to paste where?
April 26, 2012 at 10:10 am in reply to: Style editing without apply it to the current selection #62070MemberI've never heard of that key combo being necessary, simple double-clicking does the same: apply the style and then edit it.
To edit any style, you can right-click in the styles panel, and select “edit” from the menu.
MemberAdd “No Break” in the character style you are applying.
April 21, 2012 at 3:52 pm in reply to: How to create a highlight style without any effects on size/font and the other attributes incorrect texts? #62034MemberIf you don't want a font change in your highlight character style, then simply do not define a font in it. Call up the definition of this style, go to the Basic Formats secion, highlight the font and delete it.
You can check if a font is set in the style by looking in the field below the style name when you select the General section.
MemberThat is very interesting information — thanks for spelling it out in detail! I'll add it to my mental list of “factoids to impress others with”. So it's not any different than “numbering” a list as “a., b., c.” — except, then, for the irregularities you point out.
Unfortunately, you cannot make custom numbered lists with InDesign. You can change a bullet to some custom text, but only for one item at a time. So it would seem you have to do it the hard way.
A slightly harder way (but potentially more useful) could be to initially use regular numbered lists, and then have a script change all numbers to the appropriate Greek text, one at a time. But for that one needs a good understanding of converting any number to Greek — the script would need to know how to write out “125” as “κ?τι”. Perhaps it's comparable to writing out a number in full English text.
MemberGreeks don't count 1..2..3?
(Insert Economical Joke Here :))
Member(Ooh, the abbreviated URL almost reads “InDesign … rules”!)
MemberYou want some additional space between paragraphs?
Point 4 of https://blogs.adobe.com/indesig…..rules.html: use Space Before or Space After.
MemberLet's check those against dictionary.com (tiny disclaimer: this seems to be slightly biased towards US, not UK, English)
sin~~cere~~~ly > sin·cere·ly
ox~~~y~~gen > ox·y·gen
sep~~~a~~rate > sep·a·rate
in~~vin~~ci~~ble > in·vin·ci·ble
un~~e~~~ven > un·e·ven
… and this is from the online Help, on the use of tildes to indicate good/worse hyphenation points:
“If you don’t like the hyphenation points, follow these guidelines to indicate your preferred hyphenation of the word:
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Type one tilde (~) to indicate the best possible hyphenation points, or the only acceptable hyphenation point, in the word.
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Type two tildes (~~) to indicate your second choice.
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Type three tildes (~~~) to indicate a poor but acceptable hyphenation point.
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If you want the word never to be hyphenated, type a tilde before its first letter.”
So it would seem ID doesn't do too bad, and it's just a matter of personal preferences. Now those cannot be selected in ID's Preferences panel.
By the way, if your proofreader objects against 2 first or 2 last characters before/after a breaking point, you should change that in your Hyphenation settings. Those are there for exactly this reason.
MemberYes, and having pagination in reverse is an option in InDesign ME — not in InDesign (Regular). What part didn't I understand?
MemberYou can manually do this (certainly not with the single click you were hoping for) but a standard InDesign is not designed to work comfortably with Arabic and other RTL scripts.
For anything more than a single paragraph in RTL scripts (up to and including your 'complete book'), you are far better off with purchasing InDesign ME, a separate version — not an upgrade! — that is targeted specifically at the RTL market.
MemberI think we need to see an image of that. Are you sure the notes come in as real footnotes, and not as plain text?
The only option that usually does this is the checkbox “Place End of Story Footnotes at Bottom of Text”, and that only works for the very last footnote in each story.
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