Character style question

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• Question in GREP re: character style

  I'm trying to take a block of text and change everything in this text to a certain style of character. What is the correct expression GREP to do that? I know I could just strong of the text in question and apply the style of character, but I need to use it in a script of FindChangeByList, so I need to do it using GREP expressions. Thank you.

  JoJo Jenkins wrote:

  I am trying to build scripts that automate this for me, but maybe there's a much easier way to think about this issue.

  He is a. Select all of the text before you start styling and choose the character Style [no]. Alternatively, you can apply all of your paragraph styles, and then select all of your text and choose clear overrides from the paragraph Style dropdown.

  To get the default character style to be [none], make sure your cursor is selected, and then choose [none]. That applies to all future documents, make this change WITHOUT documentation open.

  Hope that helps,
  Matt

• How to write the script to apply the character style?

  Hello

  I'm on a Macbook pro and without a numeric keypad, so I can't assign a shortcut to character styles. I heard a roundabout solution where you can assign a shortcut to a script that applies the character styles. Can anyone write this script?

  My character style is called "features"bold. "

  I am new to scripting, sorry if this is a stupid question.

  See you soon

  Hello

  1. save this code as a file inside your Script Panel folder .jsx

  2. apply a shortcut using the menu Edit: shortcuts...

  Option to choose:

  • suggest you choose an option 'background': 'Text', so you can use several shortcuts that are occupied in other contexts.

  #target indesign
  if (app.selection && app.selection[0].hasOwnProperty ("baselineShift") ) {
    var cName = "Features bold";
    var mCstyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item(cName);
    if (mCstyle.isValid)
         app.selection[0].applyCharacterStyle(mCstyle);
    else
         alert ("CharStyle: " + cName + " not found");
    }
  else
    alert ("Some text supposed to be selected...");
  

  Jarek

• How to use paragraph and character styles properly?

  I have a document in which the text has two colors (which has no style)
  

  Black (normal) and Red (to highlight the keywords).

  I needed to put these 2 in a style

  (black) paragraph style

  (red) character style

  Here's my question.

  How can I make sure that when I use the paragraph style, she also uses the style of character but only on the Red words?

  While I need not find/replace every word manually

  I want to do at once.

  If you want to add styles to a document already created:

  (1) create your character style that contains only the color of the characters

  (2) search and replace a text with red color search and replace with the new character style formatting. (Do not type anything in the text portion of the find and Replace dialog box)

  (3) create and apply your paragraph style to all. The text with the applied character Style will stay red.

• remove character style color swatch

  Hello

  I'm doing a search/replace using the script to remove the fill color of a character style.

  So far I have to replace the current color by zero, using this:

  app.changeGrepPreferences.fillColor = myDocument.colors.item ("None");

  But what I really need, is replaced by the question mark symbol, as below, so he can inherit from another color that I applied via a grep style.

  

  To do this manually in Indesign I would control + click on the shade.

  I spent the last few days looking for the magical forest of code I'm missing with no luck, I hope you guys can help.

  See you soon,.

  John

  Hey John,

  Try this one:

  app.changeGrepPreferences.fillColor = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
  

  Hope that helps.

  --

  Marijan (tomaxxi)

  http://tomaxxi.com

• Character style to ignore the outline

  Hi all!

  When you create a style of character (InD CS3) on the characters of color of the dialog box section outline and fill shows like question marks. I guess that means that the character style will not change the outline.

  However, I can't find a way to RETURN to that State "do not change" after doing something else. I solved the problem by synchronizing this InD file with another that has the unmodified style so that the plan does not change when the style is applied.

  I'm missing on this dialog box which allows you to set the style of back on NOT changing the contour?

  Thanks a bunch!

  Ken

  Command-click (Ctrl-click for Windows) on the name of swatch.

• BUG: Character styles does not, plus sign and redefine style gray

  Pages, Keynote, and Numbers, the feature of character styles seem to be broken.

  When I select a character and want to create a new style of character formatting, the menu will not let me. The sign is not clickable. This is clearly a bug and should be fixed because it annihilates completely the reusability of the layouts for Pages, Numbers and Keynote.

  In the screenshot below, I select (highlight) a character that is part of a paragraph style with the style named body, displayed in the form of body + in paragraph styles.

  The changes to the formatting should let me save in the form of a character style, but the sign is grey. Redefine the style of the menu item is grayed out as well.

  

  This behavior started during a few Mac OS x versions.

  What can I do about it?

  Using Pages v5.6.2 on OS X 10.11.5.

  As long you select text including the existing character style is zero, the ability to add (blue sign) a new character style is denied. Just as this is true, whenever I changed the fonts or the attributes of a letter, a word or group of either, the possibility to add a new character style became available.

  Apple did not have a special version of Pages for me, and I can't reproduce what you're proclaiming as a BUG.

• Character styles do not work in Pages

  I'm on a MacBook Pro (13-inch, mid-2014, retina), running 10.10.5 (14F1021) and run pages v. 5.6.1

  It's pretty simple: I'm searching the internet apple documentation and Web sites.

  To the title of the pane 'format' to the right of the workspace, there is an option below 'police' called 'Styles of character ".  There is no way, in this latest version, to create a new character style.  No selection there will allow you to press the symbol '+', and there is no menu in the menu bar you option to create a character style.

  Despite trying several ways of dozens to understand this point, there is no work around.  I think it's a bug.

  Please fix this Apple?  I love the pages, but boy, this can be frustrating.

  Thank you!

  I use Pages on El Capitan 10.11.1 v5.6.1. I can define a character style.

  Try the following:

  1. Type a word or two. Select them.
  2. Press command + T to launch the Panel font
  3. In the toolbar, click the selector bar and in this menu, choose color
     1. Choose red
     2. Unique, choose the menu bar (you now have a single, red strikethrough)
  4. Selected always your text
     1. Click Character Styles picker
     2. The + symbol is now blue
        1. Click on + to add
        2. Change the new name of red bar, then press return to set.
     3. Click on any character Style
     4. Click the character crossed Red style to test.

  If you want any style of character custom for later use, you will need to make a custom template for new documents, or simply a model of style that you can open separately and then using the Format menu, styles of copy/paste between your model as well as the current document.

• Use GREP to apply paragraph styles, character styles not only

  I have a body of text, and in it, I would like to apply a specific style to the paragraphs corresponding to a model. I did a GREP style that applied some changes formatting of paragraphs, I tried that it affects, but in doing so, I found that I couldn't Center these lines using a character style. (The corresponding lines should be centered, and the rest should be left aligned.)

  I was thrilled to learn that the GREP function, then completely disappointed with this limitation. InDesign offers the possibility to automate this, so I must not cross and Center each paragraph corresponding to the hand?

  Thank you!

  InDesign provides a way to automate this so?

  Yes and no. There is no dynamically linked paragraph styles to a paragraph about his boss, but he has at least two alternatives:

  (1) use Grep-F/C

  (2) use the script FindChangeByList or MultiFindChange which is basically automate operations F/C

  HTH

  Loïc

• How can I set small caps in the character style

  I use the opportunity that you people are online:

  I'm trying to define small caps in the character style and it does not work,

  It works in the paragraph style, why is this? and is it possible around it?

  

  I can see the option in the character Styles: isn't it of menu drop-down available in your dialog box?

  

• Using nets paragraph (or something?) in a character style

  Hi all

  I am trying to create a character style that will basically 2 things:

  -make a white Word

  -place a blue box around the word

  It's easy to do with paragraph nets, but those who do not seem to work with character styles (?)

  I want to style several instances of a word in a document to look like the picture as an attachment. Any suggestions?

  Thank you!

  

  Yes, you can do it with a custom underscore and save it as a character style:

  https://www.rockymountaintraining.com/Adobe-InDesign-highlighting-text/

• Add numbers of sequential endnote using a character style

  Hello

  I wonder if anyone knows of a script that could insert numbers of endnote sequentially to each instance of a character style.

  Our editing process, we use 'hard' note numbers that are based on numbers of items of the text. When the editing process is finished, we go through and manually change the sequential numbers. The endnote numbers have a special character style, so such a script would go to the first instance of this style of character, replace the characters by '1', then go to the next occurrence of the character style and replace the characters by '2' and so on.

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Alicia Dole

  A standard operation. In the third line, replace "number of hard endnote" with the name of the character style that you use for notes end.

  app.findGrepPreferences = null;
  app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '\\d+';
  app.findGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = 'Hard endnote number';
  found = app.documents[0].findGrep();
  for (i = found.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
    found[i].contents = String (i+1);
  }
  

  Peter

• Application of large amount of copy character styles

  Hello!

  I am trying to apply character Styles to a large amount of copy and I can't understand it. I find tutorials on how to create them and use them, but I don't want to have to search all my text to style "italic". I hope that all makes sense. I thought that there was a way to apply a character Style to the text easily, but I can find no longer.

  I want to apply a character Style to some words in a large amount of text, and then apply Styles to a paragraph in the text box. actually not to change Styles of character to the breast.

  Does anyone know how to do this? Looks like it should be so simple!

  Thanks in advance!
  

  L.

  Is already italic text? If it is you can do a find/change GREP for. + and set the Format to find for italics, and then set the format change on your italic character style and change all. You should do this on a copy of the doc for safety.

• GREP search: match between character styles

  I fight with it, even if it sounds very simple.

  In a huge document, I need to find each space with these two features:

  (1) the space has no model of applied character

  (2) the space located between text1 and text2 which have the style applied X character.

  In other words:

  < text1 [Character Style X] > < space [Character Style None] > < Text2 [Character Style X] >

  How would you do that?

  The reason why you are struggling is that GREP can match two specified character styles, or two specified paragraph styles in the same time. This will require script.

• best judgment for paragraph styles, object styles and character styles

  I want to learn the criteria difference and use of paragraph styles, object styles and character styles. I know how to use them, but know about the best judgment and context, when you use would be better. Can anyone recommend links? I've been using adobe. Please don't suggest books.

  Paragraph styles are whole paragraphs.

  Character styles are letters or isolated words. Do not use the long of an entire paragraph. Do not set all the attributes, only those who are different for the properties of the paragraph Style. Unlike Quark Xpress, in InDesign are character Styles used only for the difference of isolated words.

  Paragraph styles can include the character automatically Style: Styles, GREP, nested Styles, initial letters, chips automatic & numbers and line styles.

  Object styles , set the frame of the object. They include separate definitions of all of the object, the stroke and fill.

  Object styles can also be applied to images in a frame and groups.

  Object styles may also include in the following paragraph Style and a style of paragraphs in automatic way.

  Object styles have several categories, you can choose which category is relevant to apply. For example, it is possible to apply the first style object to give the stroke and fill and apply a different object style to format the corners only and then apply the next. (With this method last only the applied object Style is linked).

  Styles of the opportunity to make global changes in a document. If you build in a smart way, they are a huge time saver. They can be stored in the CC libraries or libraries with objects that are applied to them. If you have created once these styles, you can use them again, and with one or two clicks, you can make their own to new document.

  My recommendation: the habit of Styles, name them always with the same names that it helps you to be accustomed to them and to work faster, much faster.

  There are more models: Table Styles, Styles of cell, the Master Pages and color chart.