You can send it to ariospeedwagon@gmail.com

For the crossword generator, I want to set style attributes to the text and to the crossword table. I'm thinking that I can pull the crossword data from somewhere and import it into InDesign. Right now we import a crossword puzzle PDF. Since it's a PDF, I can't edit the content and style attributes.

My Google-fu wasn't as good :-(

Thanks Jong :-)

It's for a few small-medium newspapers. I'm trying to develop a workflow whereby i can send off the content of each paper from InDesign to the web, iPad and eBooks.

I'm thinking that when I export the stories via XML, the Author metadata field can be useful for their respective websites (to sort or search by columnist/journalist).

Unless there's another way to do it… maybe a custom XML input script in InCopy or InDesign? I'm not sure; I just started learning InDesign a couple of months ago!

P.S. The way the staff of each paper puts their paper together in InDesign is just… horrendous :D

Huzzah! Thanks Anne-Marrie

Great news for me :)

Thanks for the response,

@Jongware: wow, seems pretty complex, but I'll do something about it. It should work just like GREP does for character styles for paragraphs, but applied to text frames so it could affect paragraph styles.

@David Blatner: I'm working with a few newspapers and I'm trying to implement as many automated features as possible because the clients are horrible at Indesign and aren't tech savvy.

For example: the plug-in would create automatic paragraph styling in this example:

The subheads need spacing in between the body text. They can't be used with the Next style feature because they aren't repeating exactly after one or two paragraphs of body text. If only GREP could apply paragraph styling! It could find sentences with no periods contained within body text, then apply a paragraph style.

Great insight!

Thanks for the reply.