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January 25, 2019 at 8:22 am in reply to: Grep to find all instances of a word starting (or not) with a Capital. #113878
Vinny –
MemberOoops I read your question more carefully and I realized I got it all wrong.
I think the easiest way would be to run two queries without the case sensitivity.
Find she/he
Replace by theyFind She/he
Replace by TheyJanuary 25, 2019 at 5:38 am in reply to: Grep to find all instances of a word starting (or not) with a Capital. #113875MemberNot sure if you want to catch She, she, He and he or if you want to catch She/he and she/he.
In the first case:
Find (?i)s?heIn the second case
Find (?i)she/hein both cases, replace by They
Fyi : (?i) means case insensitive
Hope that helps
Vinnyps: I suppose you’re aware that you might end up with cases such as “They’s fine”
MemberHi
This has nothing to see with Spot colors.
As soon as you add an element with any kind of transparency involved (drop shadow, PNG, etc.), Indesign will convert all colors to the transparency blend space you’ve chosen.
In your case : CMYKQuestion is: What is the final output of your document? Print? Web?
If it’s going to be printed, you should not work with RGB swatch. What you call “good” is not printable I’m afraid…
If it’s going to be for Web purpose, then you can maintain the RGB. Then go Edit > Transparency Blend Space and change to RGB.Hope that helps
VinnyMemberPDF just doesn’t support “go to next state” animation. Check out your “buttons & forms” panel, you should see “html5 and swf only”
As a workaround, you can set your different objects to show/hide as buttons and set the “show/hide buttons and forms” action for your main button.
MemberClaudio,
I believe TOC levels are only meant to affect TOC if you sorted it alphabetically.
MemberClark,
For as long as can I remember, Indesign always acted that way.If I had to deal with this kind of situation, I would put the “abstract” in the text flow, after H2, then choose one of the following workaround:
– Make the “abstract” paragraph style invisible (0.1 pt size – 0 leading – 1% h&v scaling – -1000 approach and no color – no space before/after).
Cons: It makes thinks hard to edit and you’ll have to use the story editor.– Or, set all “abstract” paragraphs as conditional text. Update TOC, then hide conditional text.
Cons: don’t forget to set the paragraph returns as conditional (Find/Replace could be helpful there). And of course, you have to follow the right order: update TOC, then hide.I prefer the “conditional text” workaround. Less dirty :-)
MemberHi there,
back from holidays, back to business, back to this interesting puzzle…About the left-side paragraph border running between 2 paragraphs, I don’t think adding a double return is the correct way. You might end up with unwanted spacing at the top of your frames or columns.
I still don’t use CC (Santa was not so good with me) and still can’t play with para shading/borders, but a fast search led me to this article:
https://creativepro.com/applying-seamless-shading-consecutive-paragraphs.phpSo my question is: what happens if you untick “Merge consecutive borders and shading with same settings”?
Now, back to the main problems:
First, how do you keep consistent spacing at the end of each line?
Well, the answer is simply to add some right-indent to your paragraph style (e.g. 2mm).
This will simply push down the words (and the following spaces), that were too close to the frame boundary…Other cases might come up where text will be send to next line, even if it’s not preceded by a space.
For instance: compound words might be “broken” after the dash. A simple Grep style to prevent breaking should fix it. You also don’t want “AC/DC” to break after /.
Not sure where to find a list of all “breaking” characters, but for sure – _ / \ em and en dashes are part of them.
Apply a “nobreak” Grep style to [-_~=~_]. should be a good start.Finally, there will still be a need for an extra (and single) space at the end of each paragraph.
I suppose a Grep Find/Replace should do the job. Something like find (.)*$ and replace by $1 maybe?I know Michel is not convinced… Still waiting for his brilliant suggestion (no irony inside)
Best regards and Happy new year to everyone ^^
MemberHi guys.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve never demonstrated how to keep constant spacing on the right… I specifically wrote that you can’t get an equal space.
Now, if Michel poped in between foie gras and Xhampagne, I suppose he has a smart solution for this interesting puzzle.
I’m curious now…
Come on Michel, tell us more :-)MemberI’m a CS6 so I can’t play with borders/paragraphs shading, but here’s an idea:
First, as stated by Dieter, you need to use the underlining feature.
Please note that you can set it up in your paragraph style directly by the way.2 problems:
– When your paragraph ends, you need to add an extra space after the last character in order to avoid underlining to stop right after it. Just like in your example : after “quat”. (NB: you still can’t guarantee perfect consistency: see C&J)
– The main problem: left indent. As you said, it’s a long time lurker than underlining doesn’t allow left/right indentation.
So I was thinking: what about adding a black left-border shading in your paragraph style? Can’t test it but… give it a try and tell us.
So far, my CS6 solution was to put my text into a cell and add a left-border to it…Edit: ah… couldn’t embed the imgur… how did you do that?
Ok here’s the link: https://imgur.com/iRhnPemMemberHi Alberto.
It is a rounding value issue.
Your paragraph probably have a 5.2916666666666… space before which is why Find/replace can’t find it.5.29166… = 15 points
So you can either:
– type directly 15pt in the F/R field. Indd will calculate and turn the results into mm
– or change units to points in your preferences.Hope that helps
VinnyMemberHi
Non-breaking space is definitely the way to go.
As a French user, I would recommend using “fixed-width non-breaking space” instead of normal one. Especially if your text is justified.
There are plenty of funny typographic rules about spaces and punctuation and I definitely recommend digging into FindChangebyList script if you often have to clean up French texts.Member“So far nobody has offered a script but I live in hope. :-)”
Really? I have provided a small script on July 2nd, didn’t I?
Maybe it doesn’t work as expected, then please provide some feedback.MemberHi.
Unless I misunderstood the question, I don’t think Data Merge could be of any help.
Did you mean that the file path is actually just text in your Indd document?
If so, maybe you can give this script a go: (haven’t tried it though)
https://kasyan.ho.com.ua/indesign/image/place_images.htmlMemberPlease note the script is based on an other one I wrote, so if I had to rewrite it, I would use the app.findObjectPreferences.appliedObjectStyles method instead of checking every object style.
It would be much more efficient, but I didn’t really have time to write a new script, so I just append the old one… -
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