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November 17, 2011 at 9:30 am in reply to: Script to Create an Exampe Of Every Paragraph Style? #61081
Theunis De Jong
MemberFor future reference:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread…..?tstart=30
is the Adobe Forum thread with the script.
November 16, 2011 at 2:10 pm in reply to: Script to Create an Exampe Of Every Paragraph Style? #61077MemberThere is bound to be one floating around here somewhere but just last week I wrote one from scratch. Look in your post in the Adobe forum.
MemberWell, perhaps you should check your settings then. When creating a new document you have the option “Facing Pages”, and if you have that switched on you automatically get facing master pages — by default, the New Master Dialog shows “Number of pages: 2”.
I just tested — you can change the “Facing Pages” setting after you created your document.
You can see the page icons in the Pages panel change: single pages don't have a folded corner, facing pages show a fold on the outside of their page.
And in doing this, would I simply set up a separate master for each chapter so the author name is able to be changed with each chapter? Or I could use one master and then override master items and copy and paste the vecto running heads for applicable chapters.
Jeez none of that “overriding” stuff please! Look up on how to use Text Variables in the Help, as these are practically created to do exactly this kind of work. The only master pages one would need is one per chapter start (if it has a unique design), and then the same master page again and again, which then automatically would pick up the “current” author and title in the text variables in its headers.
MemberYou don't have separate master pages for left and right?
MemberEugene Tyson said:
The filename it generates is terrible.
Anyway to custom name or to use the words of the text frame as the file name?
Word does this automatically when you save a file, using the first few words in the document.
This is the offending line:
myFileName = “StoryID” + myID + myExtension;… Would you like it to?
November 10, 2011 at 8:05 am in reply to: Kozuka Mincho Pro: Italics are alternative glyphs, what to do? #61035MemberI have read that InDesign supports somekind of GSUB (glyph subsitution) feature …
It does, but only for the items that are defined through the Character panel: the ones listed in the Opentype flyout menu. And 'ital' is not one of them. So apparently there is no way to automatically access/replace these glyphs.
For what it's worth, I think the 'ital' Opentype feature is deprecated by now as it was a very bad idea to begin with.
MemberYou can also try ExportAllStories.jsx, as it comes free with your installation of InDesign.
November 3, 2011 at 11:00 am in reply to: GREP search for superscript changed to superscript with brackets #60984MemberChange that to
change format: Normal (in the Position dropdown)
and it'll save you the last step of removing the superscript.
November 2, 2011 at 5:48 am in reply to: How do I make endnotes if my indd file has no paragraph or character styles? #60972MemberIt's a bit unclear what you need I'm afraid.
* To convert formatted text into character styles, you can use scripts: Free Scripts Help Fix Word Formatting
* To convert unformatted paragraphs into paragraph styles (and also character styles, incidentally) you can use David's own Blatner Tools
* What does “restyle” mean? The tools above will create a character style 'superscript' for you and apply it to, uh, the superscripted text (which may include but not be limited to your endnote reference numbers).
(Addend:) Were you thinking there has to be a way to create 'real' endnotes in InDesign? They don't exist, so you would have to fake them anyway.
November 2, 2011 at 5:42 am in reply to: New to InDesign — Book Creation MS Word-InDesign Workflow Question #60971Member1a. Yes. This option is off by default, but you can enable it in the Preferences (it's called Link to text files, something like that.)
There is a very good reason it's off by default! Every time you update the link, the original file gets re-read into InDesign, and that means that all of your InDesign edits will disappear. (I think it's worthwhile to make this point stand out a bit.) Only with a very careful workflow you can seamlessly transfer paragraph and character styles from one to the other.
1b. Well, it depends.
1c. Well, it depends.
“It depends” because you need to decide what you want to do with your Word file afterwards. If you intend to use this (and not the InDesign version) for any other further processing, you will need those edits.
It's also possible to export your plain text out of InDesign to RTF (although this will not give you the same Word file “with edits” back).
MemberAlso,
(?<=d.)[a single space]+
will find a number followed by a period and space anywhere, not just at the beginning of a list so don't do a “Replace All” with it.
Yeah — change it to
(?<=^d.)[space)
to anchor it to the start of a paragraph.
MemberMake it center.
MemberWell, good thing you asked because you can't.
It's the same as with all new versions of ID: you never have been able to “open” a new document into an older version.
To transfer a document one version down, you need to Export it to IDML – you can open that with your CS4. Need I remind you any new features used will be lost at that point?
MemberInDesign's default paragraph settings take the line endings of entire paragraphs into account when calculating the optimal line breaks, and it does an extremely thorough job. That's why it sometimes leaves odd ends: because the alrernative is worse.
You can toggle this behavior off in the Justification dialog, under Paragraph Composer, if it really bothers you.
MemberUh, so you want to delete all number combinations except when they contain an '8', right? Then the simplest solution is not to use d to search for all digits but make a set of your own:
t*b1?[0-79]-1?[0-79]b[ t]*
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