You can index numbers as well as words — just try it!

In fact, you can index just about everything (as long as it's plain text). I copied some text from a web page on mathematics, and added index entries for '0', '1', '+', 'logb(x)', and '=', and got this cute little one-page index:

Symbols

+ 1

= 1

0 1

1 1

L

logb(x) 1

So .. you want a single ID file, with each ballot form with a number of its own? (Ab-)use the page number for this, I'd say.

Read https://creativepro.com/mak…..ickets.php for more pointers on numbering.

The one and only thing I can think of to use EPS is … because these can contain algorithms! Now hold on (I hear you say), what if you convert the file to a PDF by dropping it onto the Distiller? Well, the algorithm is executed, which usually results in a nice image with all vectors, fills, strokes et hoc genus omne in their own place — a static image.

When should the EPS not render into a static image? With a random maze, of course! Every time you open the file Maze.ps with the Distiller (or with Apple's Preview), you will see a different maze.

Sadly, although you can rename the file to Maze.eps and place it multiple times into InDesign, it'll always render the same maze …

Sure it's possible! It's a matter of grouping:

as((?!cold).)+?snight

works, because the outer parentheses group is what gets repeated, and inside the parentheses every single character is checked to not have 'cold' in front of it.

For added fun, you can add word boundaries before and after 'cold', so it will not reject 'a scolding hot night'

as((?!bcoldb).)+?snight

(Ed.: Added '?' after the pluses so it will match shortest possible strings only — usually, that's what you'd want.)

I can see why you thought the layer controls the color: if you drag a guide out of a ruler, it initially has the color of the layer. But that's just because it's selected; de-selecting it reverts the color to the default.

Yipes — And Now For Something Entirely Different!

First things first: what OS are you on, with what version of InDesign? (And, if CS4 or older, what sub-version?)

Cool. Sounds like its either a real bug, or simply something Adobe's programmers did not foresee.

Report it to the Feature Request/Bug Report form — you never now, it might get fixed in the next dot release.

If you change the “Relative to” method in Preferences, Grids, from “Top of Page” to “Top Margin”, you can change the margins on your master page and have the first baseline go down with it. Using this method, you cannot change to another start at distance and increment — these are global settings.

However, you can also set specific baseline settings for every single text frame in your document: in “Text Frame Options” select the Baseline Options, then enable “Custom Baseline Grid”. You can also save this settings in an Object Style (in the Text Frame Baseline Options section) , so all it would take is selecting your chapter start frame and apply your new object style.