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  • May 10, 2010 at 1:48 pm in reply to: Variable Drop Caps… #55667
    Theunis De Jong
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    Well, yes, Massey … but that's no proper use of Drop Caps.

    It's funny — I started thinking what you would need, besides a character style for 'n digits', applied through a nested style. This character style ought to make the size large enough and move the baseline down, but then you would need a function “Indent first x lines”, and InDesign does not have that.

    … doesn't it?

    Surprise, surprise: it does! Set a tab position at the right indent-to distance, set your Drop Caps number of characters to '1' and the required indenting number of first lines … and insert one Tab at the start. Presto! One Indent first x lines function!

    May 10, 2010 at 7:00 am in reply to: Grep or scripting #52675
    Theunis De Jong
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    From beginning of line to first tab, with 22 characters or more of non-tabs, replacing that tab with a soft return:

    Find

    ^([^]{22,})

    Replace

    $1

    (although you might want to add the tab again in the replacement line, so your next data is aligned the same as non-soft-returned lines).

    It won't work perfectly; if there is a single name with lots of i's and no m's, it will broken while not necessary; and if you have a single long name with lots of m's, you'll need to spot those by eye. But I think these stand out of the crowd, and in any case there shouldn't be much of these (if there are too much remaining, decrease the number of minimal characters).

    May 10, 2010 at 6:48 am in reply to: Variable Drop Caps… #52512
    Theunis De Jong
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    Well, yes, Massey … but that's no proper use of Drop Caps.

    It's funny — I started thinking what you would need, besides a character style for 'n digits', applied through a nested style. This character style ought to make the size large enough and move the baseline down, but then you would need a function “Indent first x lines”, and InDesign does not have that.

    … doesn't it?

    Surprise, surprise: it does! Set a tab position at the right indent-to distance, set your Drop Caps number of characters to '1' and the required indenting number of first lines … and insert one Tab at the start. Presto! One Indent first x lines function!

    May 9, 2010 at 2:20 pm in reply to: Aligning text, flush with the right margin. #55659
    Theunis De Jong
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    No — Optical Margin Alignment shifts all other text away from the frame edge :-)

    There are tons of ways to do this, but all of them involve either separating gray background from text, or header from rest-of-text. (As I suggested in the Adobe Forum.)

    Yoshi, did you try any of these? Won't they work for you?

    May 9, 2010 at 7:20 am in reply to: Aligning text, flush with the right margin. #52660
    Theunis De Jong
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    No — Optical Margin Alignment shifts all other text away from the frame edge :-)

    There are tons of ways to do this, but all of them involve either separating gray background from text, or header from rest-of-text. (As I suggested in the Adobe Forum.)

    Yoshi, did you try any of these? Won't they work for you?

    May 7, 2010 at 1:49 am in reply to: Grep question #55654
    Theunis De Jong
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    Lookbehind does not accept variable length arguments — you cannot use “+”, “?”, “*”, or any value x other than n in “{n,[x]}”. You can only group together multiple fixed-length lookbehinds like this:

    ((?<=[ul ]{14})|(?<=[ul ]{15})),

    But I don't think it's necessary — if you already found 14, why would you want to test if there are even more?

    May 6, 2010 at 6:49 pm in reply to: Grep question #52662
    Theunis De Jong
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    Lookbehind does not accept variable length arguments — you cannot use “+”, “?”, “*”, or any value x other than n in “{n,[x]}”. You can only group together multiple fixed-length lookbehinds like this:

    ((?<=[ul ]{14})|(?<=[ul ]{15})),

    But I don't think it's necessary — if you already found 14, why would you want to test if there are even more?

    May 4, 2010 at 2:48 pm in reply to: Cross Reference Alerts Won't Go Away #55642
    Theunis De Jong
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    Perhaps this might help: today I had a similar problem, when exporting ID warned that “one or more cross-references are out of whack”.

    Rather than trying to find out which one (in a four-page table of contents, referring to any of about 40 chapters spread over 8 files), I called up the Preflight Panel and checked if there was anything available for Cross Refs. Yup — there was. I made a new profile, checking only the refs, and switched it on. 1 sec. later it told me the page number of a single reference; and clicking this page number took me right to the little troublemaker.

    I dunno what ID did, internally; I only had to open the corresponding referred-to file and the Preflight warning went away. Exported without a hitch, then closed the document — and then the Book panel showed a “Modified” warning! Well, I had my PDF, so I ignored that … until next time … (echoing “ha ha ha”'s in the distance).

    May 4, 2010 at 7:48 am in reply to: Cross Reference Alerts Won’t Go Away #52640
    Theunis De Jong
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    Perhaps this might help: today I had a similar problem, when exporting ID warned that “one or more cross-references are out of whack”.

    Rather than trying to find out which one (in a four-page table of contents, referring to any of about 40 chapters spread over 8 files), I called up the Preflight Panel and checked if there was anything available for Cross Refs. Yup — there was. I made a new profile, checking only the refs, and switched it on. 1 sec. later it told me the page number of a single reference; and clicking this page number took me right to the little troublemaker.

    I dunno what ID did, internally; I only had to open the corresponding referred-to file and the Preflight warning went away. Exported without a hitch, then closed the document — and then the Book panel showed a “Modified” warning! Well, I had my PDF, so I ignored that … until next time … (echoing “ha ha ha”'s in the distance).

    May 4, 2010 at 5:02 am in reply to: CS5 Panels showing blank – but work #55631
    Theunis De Jong
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    Previous versions' Panel problems could be put down to a possibly problematic (prehistoric) graphics driver. Payed a visit to the NVidia pages yet?

    May 3, 2010 at 10:02 pm in reply to: CS5 Panels showing blank – but work #52632
    Theunis De Jong
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    Previous versions' Panel problems could be put down to a possibly problematic (prehistoric) graphics driver. Payed a visit to the NVidia pages yet?

    May 3, 2010 at 1:42 pm in reply to: Is there a way to separate things like this Automatically? #55620
    Theunis De Jong
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    As far as I'm concerned, you may put your name at the top :-)

    My JS knowledge didn't come from sleeping with a notebook under my pillow — I learned my trixx from others as well, just passing them on.

    May 3, 2010 at 6:42 am in reply to: Is there a way to separate things like this Automatically? #52431
    Theunis De Jong
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    As far as I'm concerned, you may put your name at the top :-)

    My JS knowledge didn't come from sleeping with a notebook under my pillow — I learned my trixx from others as well, just passing them on.

    April 29, 2010 at 12:39 pm in reply to: End of table cell character for search/replace #55596
    Theunis De Jong
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    1. Click the top left corner of the table — the position where the cursor changes to a suspiciously Word-alike right-bottom pointing fat arrow. The entire table gets selected.

    2. Call up Find & Change. You need a fancy-pansy GREP search here so select that tab.

    3. Put this into the Find What box: r+$ (that's “Backslash r for Return, a Plus for any amount, once or more, At End of Cell/Story/Footnote — obviously, only Cell gets used jere)

    4. Put a single space in the Change To box.

    5. Make sure the scope is set to “Selection”. Since CS3, ID tries to guess what you want it to be but often gets it wrong :-P

    6. Click the Change All button.

    7. Sit back and enjoy the feeling of a job well done.

    April 29, 2010 at 8:49 am in reply to: InDesign CS5 – Tables? #55591
    Theunis De Jong
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    As far as I know: None whatsoever. As in null, zero, nichts, nada, rien. They must already function absolutely perfect, don't they?

    Work your way through https://help.adobe.com/en_US/in&#8230;..6ff6a.html and report back when/if you find something …

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