The trick is to recognize the actual underlying pattern:

A number between parentheses, OR

a number range, indicated by

a number, a dash, a number, OR

any of the above repeated and separated by semicolons.

Without testing, this ought to do the job (I inserted double backslashes, which seems to defeat the slash-eating imp :D ):

(d+(-d+)?(;d+(-d+)?)*)

Notice that the 2nd half is exactly the same as the first, but with a semicolon in front and to be repeated zero or more times.

No, the dictionary and your H&J settings work in tandem — neither really “overrides” the other.

That is, if a word can be hyphenated according to the dictionary as “dic~tion~ary”, and your H&J settings (wasn't that a Quark term?) are set to at least 4 characters after first/4 characters before last, InDesign will fetch the possible hyphenation points from the dictionary, then discard the ones that don't work with the settings (and in this case none will be left, so it won't hyphenate this particular word).

The same goes for the Hyphen Limit; if ID already hyphenated the last word in three lines in a row, it won't hyphenate another one ever; regardless of what the dictionary says.

The entire system works like this: InDesign examines every possible combination of justification and hyphenation for an entire paragraph. That leads to a long list of possible breaking points; but all of them should be “valid”, that is, none of them will have less than four characters when hyphenated, and none of them will result in more than 3 hyphenated words at line ends. Then it assigns a score to each of these solutions, based upon (I think) how much the spacing would diverge from your preferred values per single line. A second run on the paragraph then tries to avoid a tight-set line followed by a loose-set one; that also gets lots of “negative points”. Finally, the mathematically best set of breaking points is used.

But the very first thing to do is assigning the correct language to all of your text! In your case it's not just the main reason for the badly broken words, it's the only reason. InDesign is extremely good in hyphenating “normal” text, and even does a fair job on specialized terminology (one of the reasons ID has a “medical” dictionary is because lots of medical terms are not based on English, but rather on Latin and Greek, which uses a different hyphenation system). Actually, most of the 'hyphenation errors' I encounter are in names, both foreign (“Sc-heidegger”) and, uhm, USA English (“Ma-cIntyre” — UK English hyphenates it correct!).

Use a cross-reference. Text variables pick up a text in a certain character or paragraph style (amongst other things), and you cannot use these to refer to a page — but a cross-reference can.

The “target” for a cross-reference can be a page, but in this case you should use a text anchor, which is inserted into the text itself. If the text (to be precise, as you hopefully realize, that particular text anchor) runs onto another page, ID will update the reference to it with the new page number.

Oh wait — this message pops up for the reverse! The effects should still be there, but no buttons …

Hmmm …

Can't you do anything at all with that style? Change its definition, Based On, a total redefine, etc.?

Is it in use anywhere? (I wouldn't know if that matters, actually — but I've had ID freeze on me when I tried to delete a paragraph style that was heavily used.)

Can you rename it? From ye olde memory: certain characters that were allowed in style names in Word caused problems in InDesign. Lots of versions ago, but you never know.

Yeah, how did people work in InDesign 1.0 without the History Palette?

(Oh, wait …) :D

See this thread from Adobe's InDesign forum: https://forums.adobe.com/thread…..?tstart=60

(Tomaxxi's answer at the bottom only got a gold star, not the ribbon it deserved :( )

Hi David!

My “it doesn't matter where you downsample” is based on the fact that, from the point of view of the final output, you should always supply more than enough pixels. I.e., for a 120 lpi screen show it seems you'd need no more than 150 dpi, but it's highly recommended to go no lower than 300 dpi. Surely any (un)sharpening at the individual pixel level would then be invisible?

(Actually, this is equal to your thumbs up for JPEG. Any compression artifacts ought to be virtually invisible on high rez output — if and only if in its entire Save history only the highest possible quality was chosen.)