https://community.adobe.com/hel…..p;hl=en_US

If you follow the very first link this lists, it tells you how to “Add basic page numbering”; it walks you through the steps of adding a page numbering marker to the master page and setting its style & numbering.

Related to that is https://help.adobe.com/en_US/in…..710ca.html; it describes section numbering in more detail.

Watch it, you are using regular Find notation instead of GREP!

You could use (theoretically!) something like this: search for

^(.+r.+r.+r.+)r

and replace with

$1n

I don't think I would let such a replace go nuts on my text. You say it's a “product line”; I think I would play it safe and check what makes these a product line, rather than 'regular' text (i.e., a “Product name”, or Stuff With Capitals, or Added Serial Numbers-20B).

Apologies to David for my tangentential take on this, but: piracy in software cannot be justified, in any way!

1. Using pirated software, you can produce the same stuff cheaper than honest people do.

2. You steal from the software developers as sure as you were taking the money out of their wallet, because they expect to get paid for their work, calculated their prices upon that, then see everyone use their programs and not getting any money back from it.

3. If the developers don't get paid, they won't make updates or a new version. Why should they?

4. Oh but not everyone is dishonest? Well, the honest (paying) users get to pay for stolen copies as well, because if only 5 copies are paid out of 20 actually used copies, those 5 paid copies have to bring in the same amount of money.

5. You are not “stealing property”, only a copy thereof. My standard answer to that is: in that case give me your credit card number and expiry date. That in itself has no monetary value; it's just a string of digits. Oh and it's fully ensured, so even if I took advantage of it (imagine!), you still won't have lost a penny.

… if you write a book, and I dishonestly present myself as the author of what you wrote, that's much worse. You yourself were the victim of a really awful example of that sort of piracy (of your excellent InDesign Object Reference). Action should be taken against that sort of thing, and I think it probably could be more effectively taken if stop pretending it's exactly same thing as theft, that's all.

Now that's an excellent example. Yup — I was, uh, displeased, to say the least. But I had my sweet revenge! First off, after a month or so of sullen musings, I retaliated by releasing a new version even better than it was before. Second, I made sure to make such a public Big Stink that anyone googling is sure to come across one of my posts discrediting that “pirated” version :)

Debating pricing, on the other hand, is far more tricky. Of course we can only presume Adobe calculates a fair price for their products — after all, you don't know neither the initial investment, nor the expected long term return rate. And it's anyone's guess how much better you would be off with a cheaper product (that includes “free” open source software; sure it's “free” but my experience is it usually comes with a hefty price in the form of unexpected problems).

My boss paid for InDesign; not once, but for all of our 4 or 5 active computers, and not once, but ever since (I think) InDesign v.2, chugging through update after update. Now some people elect to use pirated versions, because “they cannot afford it” — and, because they don't have the purchase expenses, they can produce the same quality of product as I do, but at a lower price. I cannot advise my boss to downgrade to a cheaper package with a clear conscience, and if we want to achieve the same price levels as these pirates, we might as well torrent the next ID as well!

And rather than investing in newer computers, we're gonna get ourselves a hefty brick and wait outside the Apple store until the lights go out. That'll save some pennies too.

Even when using all Opentype fonts you're still going to have typographic issues that will cause text reflow when moving from one system to another. Is this true?

Absolutely not.

Only thing is, you need the same version and the same fonts.

… Of course all Unicode values are defined by the Unicode Consortium. Per definition :)

The Unicode Consortium people are, IMO, the Unsung Heroes of this century. I vividly remember the ginormous mess of different ASCII tables and — why thank you mr. Gates — Windows Codepages of the late '80s. Every computer system seems to have a set of characters of its own, and about the only consolation was that the really weird systems such as EBDIC were abandoned swiftly in liue of at least the canonical ASCII set, space through tilde. (And tab and return; but that was about it.)

The WordPerfect Corp. was, in my recollection, one of the first to try to break through the 256-character barrier; they devised a system with “character sets”, and linked each of these virtual composite fonts to more than one physical font, so you could “set” a font Times, then use anything from the usual Latin characters to a full math set to Hebrew and Greek, without having to manually browse for each character in each available font … eat that, Glyphs Panel!

But with the advent of Unicode and the technological advances in Font Technology — I'm talking Opentype here, dudes, not your-basic-256-character-based Type 1, or the heavily Codepage Infected TrueType specs — suddenly that was a thing of the past. About the only reasonable complaint left to us is, “what, there are only two styles of digits in this font?”

(a) The proper OR code is the vertical line or “pipe”:

a|e|o|i|u

— this works for entire words:

and|or|not|nor

(b) For proper searching for a set of disjunct characters, you don't need to individually OR them, you can put them into an OR set; each single character in it will match:

[aeoiu]

(c) To search for a consecutive set of characters, you don't have to list them all. Rather than

[0123456789]

you can use this notation:

[0-9]

This notation is for characters, not for numbers, so search for

[10-20]

will search for the individual characters '1', '0 to 2', '0' and not for anyrthing from 'ten to twenty' :)

(d) .. The above notation is useful, but searching for just digits is so common that they decided to assign a shortcut code to it:

d

in itself will match any single digit.

So that's how you would do it with GREP. … Thing is, under normal circumstances you don't even need this. If you are using a font that has lowercase “oldstyle” or “medieval” digits as default, and the font comes with a separate style of “lining” digits, all you have to do is change the default in your paragraph style setup — it's in the Opentype Features panel, under “Figure Style”.

If you are using a font that does not come with Opentype enabled digit styles, it will not work. But then GREP will not work either, 'cause there is nothing to change these digits to.

Uh — if you had a hat, you could put it back on… I'm still on CS4, so for me it's shift+arrows to adjust the gaps. I can see the total size of any frame I drag, but it doesn't tell me how much of it is gap! I don't see a relation with the usual cursor nudge distances either (as defined in Preferences > Units & Increments).