Find/replace character tags

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• Questions of character Tag search/replace

  FM 12.0.4.445 on Windows 7 Enterprise

  I created a character tag (Skip spelling) with all the properties defined on "such what" with the exception of the language, which is set to 'None '. The purpose of this tag must be FM to skip some words for spell checking. For example, my paper discusses many different file extensions, such as. TXT. DAT, etc. These terms may not be added to the dictionary due to the parameter 'space before' for periods, I don't want to change.

  By applying this tag character works fine, except in two cases:

  • All first, apply occasionally forces an end to the next line of a paragraph, as if the term has increased in size. Not a big deal, but I'm curious as to why this would happen. It also makes me wonder about the spread and stretch the parameters remaining at 0% and 100%, well I tried to delete the definition of character tag.
  • More important still, using find/replace with change = by gluing applies the new tag of character but also changes "BOLD" to plain text, especially in the "BOLD" headings. (Copy special > character Format has been used to copy the character tag.) Apply the tag of character directly for a term of "BOLD" does not remove the "BOLD". Is the find/replace properly configured or it is a bug?

  Thanks a lot for your help.

  I can't help much with respacing number. Check that your character Skip spelling format is really changing only the language. See what changes in the Character Designer when you apply the format, or save a MIF file and review the definition of your character Skip spelling format.

  Copy special > copy character Format all the properties of the formatting of characters. If the Find/Replace dialog box behaves as expected - which unfortunately for you, is not as intended.

• InDesign CC Grep find/replace to replace the character of space per paragraph (fly)

  Hello InDesigners,

  I'm trying to clean up a 99 page document. In the file, titles of chapters, in capital letters, followed by a space, which is then followed with text more uppercase there. This always occurs at the beginning of a paragraph.

  I'm trying to target the space character that appears just after the number of chapter and Exchange to a number (fly).

  For example:

  
  

  CHAPTER 22 SUNDAY UNDERGROUND

  I want the Grep to change this as follows:

  CHAPTER 22

  SUNDAY UNDERGROUND

  I know that to do this job, I need to use positive look behind and positive Look Ahead, at first, I just tried to isolate CHAPTER 22 using the following:

  ^ \u{2,}\s\d+

  It worked. However, as soon as I cut and paste into P.L.B., find/replace says that it does not match.

  (?<=^\u{2,}\s\d+)\s

  
  

  The culprit seems to be the comma that comes just after the number 2. If I take, I get a match, but just not the one I wanted.

  
  

  Why P.L.B. does not accept the comma as part of the range in my definition grep?
  

  
  

  (FYI, I prefer to use wildcards with a specified scope, rather than literal text).

  It is indeed the comma, and the reason why it does not work because the flavor of InDesign's GREP does not allow a variable length argument in its lookbehinds. And the construction "has {x, y}" indicates a variable length.

  "Chapter" only you know how many characters to uppercase, and even the exact text, you can use

  (?<=^CHAPTER>

  the first chapters to a number, then

  (?<=^CHAPTER>

  for the rest. In your version of InDesign, I guess there is also a possible solution with the fairly new \K "forget - me" operator but I have not yet enough experience with that. It should look like this:

  ^ \u{2,}\s\d+\K\s

  but you will have to experiment a bit to see how to work with the replacement string.

  In addition, you should only use the name of "fly" for a character that looks like this: "¶". The code that you insert will call it a 'return' or 'paragraph return. Initially, I took your question literally, and it sounded as if you were after this result: "CHAPTER 22 ¶ SUNDAY UNDERGROUND"

• can I find/replace the leader tab character?

  I have a Word document that I'm slope in ID and there are a lot of different tab with the leaders of the dot stops. The dot leaders are a simple point, but I want not a 'space-point' in order to spread them out more.

  I can't understand how to find a tab with a character specific point leader and change to another - if it was a uniform set of rules of text I want to make a Style with what I wanted and find/replace all, the problem is, is that there are a few pieces of text with two tabs three and four as well as "BOLD" and regularly mixed in so I have to make a Style for all versions of tab stops and it's longer than I want to take with it.

  So, is it possible to change only the leader? What is Grep something?

  TIA

  ID CS5 7.0.4 MacPro 8-core, 14 GB of RAM, Snow Leopard

  I think that may have to be scripted?

  However, you can do a search for "^ t".

  And increase the tracking/kerning in the change format (200 should do)

  Maybe do a replace/find so you can't change something unexpectedly.

• I'm looking for links Hypertext in find/replace the dialogue (without applying a character style).

  I have 7000 hyperlinks in my document, with different character styles ("italic", "bold" and "italic +"BOLD""). I need to apply the blue color to each of them. If I ask a new character style "hyperlink" to all, I'll lose my formatting.

  Is there a way to find hyperlinks (for themselves, not their format) dialog find/replace in order to create and apply 4 different character styles ('hyperlink_regular', 'hyperlink_bold', 'hyperlink_italic' and ' hyperlink_bold + italic")?

  Sorry for my English, thanks for the help!

  Use Javascript!

  You can use this Javascript, for example. (Instructions on how to use a JavaScript in InDesign can be found elsewhere).

  blue = app.activeDocument.swatches.item("Blue");
  for (a=0; a
  Take care to provide the correct color swatch name in the first line.
  		   

• Find/replace for text formatting

  Hi guys,.

  How to use find/replace for text formatting changes? I would like to change a text of entire book to try an another typographical options. The book is currently typed in text of Lyon. The problem is when I change to Sabon will make it overides the italics and the word "BOLD".

  I tried to find/display

  Search

  Lyon text regular italic

  Change

  Sabon italic

  

  but it does not work. Most of the text of this book is not formatted with the character to italic Style, for example, just a paragraph Style General to make it easier to work with.

  What I am doing wrong? Any help or ideas?

  
  Thank you!

  All of the text has a paragraph style that applies the formatting of basis for the whole paragraph. ALL text that deviates from the General formatting of the paragraph should have a style of character applied somehow, either directly, or as a nested or style GREP, which overrides the formatting of paragraph and gives what you want. The paragraph styles that do not change the font family are much more useful, for example a style that just changing the text in italics, as they continue to work when you change the font family of the paragraph style in the basic text format section.

  Character styles are used ONLY to change the part of the text in a paragraph. If the paragraph has the same formatting, it should have a paragraph set for this format style.

• Find/replace the numbers?

  I like very much all my numbers in small caps, but always manually go through and change them all. Can I find/replace all numbers with a number of small capitals? CS3/Mac

  You can do this by using a GREP.

  1. go in the tab GREP in the FInd\Change dialog box find it what field type in \d

  2. in article Format change click on the empty area and in the dialog box that opens, go to the tab "Basic character Formats" and chose small caps of the case drop down. OK to the dialog box

  3. change all

  You can save this query to other references.

  Thank you

  Javed

• Find/replace highlights the bad code

  Hi, if you use find it normal and the search for specific text in my AS3 class file, it highlights the right position where he finds corresponding text, but when I use the search/replace completely it messes up, it highlights the text wrong in my code, but it displays the correct position in the Find/Replace window. Is there a way to fix this, or is this a known bug? See attached screenshot.

  

  Hello

  Thanks for sharing the file.

  The problem is with the end of Line (EOL) character. The file uses a rating of CR at the end of his LIFE and has been used in Mac OS 9 and Mac OS 9 version. When a file is created using one of these versions of Mac OS and then the EOL character would be CR which is now obsolete and is not recognized by many modern text editors.

  If the EOL is LF or CR | LF then search and replace will work as expected in Flash CC.

  You can change the end of LIFE of the file to open and save the file in Wordpad that will change the EOL to CR | LF.

  Hope this information helps you solve your problem.

  Thank you!

  Mohan

• Do find/replace multiple records at the same time?

  Hello

  I wonder if there is a way to apply the options find/replace, I select all the records that I have given merged in my InDesign file.

  Reserved spaces will not import my database spaces, example if I

  Model InDesign: < < bird > >

  < < beak > > < < beak value > >

  .csv:                              bird's beak,,, value of beak

  Eagle, beak:, Hung

  I get

  InDesign after the merger of data: Eagle

  beak: hung

  No spaces came with the merger.  If there is an option to preserve the spaces, it would be the simplest solution. However, I'm not finding such a command, so I would like to add a special character after my colon in the .csv and then use ID to find/replace this character in each of my files in a space or two.  Any ideas?

  Thank you.

  Edit: even on a single record, find/replace is not applied to my output document, either... Its release the special character that I wrote in the fields of .csv instead of space, it is supposed to transform.

  Post edited by: EX_Achilles

  Yes.

  Make sure that you set the scope of the search and replace of the Document. He may have missed the selection or history.

• Find/replace help with generic numbers...

  Hello... I am looking for help with wildcards.

  I have a specific task to complete... I have to add dash & space in a space in a string of letters and characters...

  here

  221 Kbps - 00:28:34space dash space here47 MB - 44.1 kHz

  198 kbps - 01:27:43 41 MB - 44.1 kHz

  215 Kbps - 00:34:52 156 MB - 44.1 kHz

  225-14 Kbps: 32:00 54 Mb - 48 kHz

  If my finished text will look like this

  221 Kbps - 00:28:34 47Mb - 44.1 kHz

  198 kbps - 01:27:43 - 41 Mb - 44.1 kHz

  215 Kbps - 00:34:52 -156 MB - 44.1 kHz

  225-14 Kbps: 32:00 - 54 Mb - 48 kHz

  There are many variables the text - but I thought that maybe I could create a generic figure find/replace, based on the Mb of type bit, replacing the single space space hyphen space

  BUT

  I need to keep the numbers before the MB

  so my question - is it possible to KEEP the NUMBERS of GENERIC character?

  Thank you very much!

  If text is like that throughout, you could do a search for

  To find

  (\:\d\d)\s+(\d+Mb)

  Implement

  $1-$2

  Try it on a few see if it works.

• How to find the character / change size?

  Customer request goes like this.  Change all trademarks and balls to pt 7.

  The document is huge and will take forever.  Is it possible to do this with an advanced find/replace script?

  Fact complex doubling as a query is specific® and the other is built in the style that InDesign does not recognize as a character in the search field.

  Maybe something I'm on fast application?

  Help ~ I really don't want to have to finger through this whole doc.

  Use the tab of GREP Find/Change.IN find it what field enter 8 ~ | ~ r (it's the tilde-eight-vertical bar-tilde-r). Let the change to blank or enter $0 and in changing the formatting Click on basic character Formats and set the size. Define the scope of the search and all of the changes.

• Find/replace all other cases

  I have a lot of numbers that I copied from Excel - they are separated by tabs, and returns, and I want to turn them into a table.

  My problem: I want to replace any other tab character and automate this process if possible.

  example - I want that:

  1.02 25.9 [TAB] [TAB] [TAB] 0.61 15.5 [TAB] 0.90 [TAB] 22.9

  1.08 [TAB] [TAB] 27.4 0.64 16.3 [TAB] [TAB] 0.92 [TAB] 23.4

  (where [TAB] is actually a tab character)

  to look like this:

  1.02 (25.9) 0.61 (15.5) [TAB] [TAB] 0.90 (22.9)

  1.08 (27.4) 0.64 (16.3) [TAB] [TAB] 0.92 (23.4)

  Is it possible to use find/replace to replace each other tab with a "("?) "

  Thanks in advance,

  Mike

  mikeborgsdorf wrote:

  Is it possible to use find/replace to replace each other tab with a "("?) "

  Sure! GREP mode, search

  (\d+\.\d+)\t(\d+\.\d+)

  and replace with
  $1 ($2)

• How to use styles to characters in find/replace JavaScripts?

  First of all, good luck to Ole. It has been so useful (and a good writer, too). All the best!

  My JavaScripts find/replace run trouble in line 159 of the ExtendScript Toolkit. The script is looking for a particular font, it is expected to then apply a character style. I use the format that I see in the example text 'FindChangeList' to Adobe, but the script is always hit a wall. What I am doing wrong? I wish I had a working method for research, not only for fonts, but also to find a paragraph or character style and apply a new style.

  Simple stuff, but I'm roadblocked.

  Here's the script until now:

  This script applies the character style DFKai to the Arial Unicode font.

  
  

  text {findWhat: "', appliedFont:" Arial Unicode MS", fontStyle:"Regular"} {appliedCharacterStyle: 'DFKai'} {include notes: true, include master pages: true include hidden layers: true, any word: false} find Unicode fonts; change the style of character DFKai.

  Thanks for your help!

  Gary Niemeier

  Gary Niemeier says:

  {include notes: true, include master pages: true include hidden layers: true, any word: false}

  This not is not valid JavaScript, it looks like it was copied from a script AppleScript but not changed properly. Keys property for options must not contain spaces, they must be written:

  {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false}
  

• Find/replace wildcards

  Greetings!

  I have a page that contains the code that is generated by a program that adds a javascript image gallery, which works fine, but the customer has requested to NOT to display the popup tooltips coming from the attribute "title" image when hovered by browsers. This software puts the name of the image file in the title and alt attributes of the code, and I want to do is use a find/change command to clear all the attributes title, but so far nothing I've come with works.

  I have literally hundreds of these images and two of each version small and large image... Since the alt tag is still there screen readers will be able to work, and we need not display titles that are not important...

  I'm not familiar with the method of this kind of coding find Dreamweaver and web pages I looked me have not given much to work with...

  Here is an example of the copied code from one of the pages:

  < div id = "vlightbox1" >

  "" < a class = "vlightbox1" href="data/images1/cimg4464.jpg" title = "CIMG4464" > < img src="data/thumbnails1/cimg4464.jpg" alt = "CIMG4464" / > < / has >

  "" < a class = "vlightbox1" href="data/images1/cimg5426.jpg" title = "CIMG5426" > < img src="data/thumbnails1/cimg5426.jpg" alt = "CIMG5426" / > < / has >

  "" < a class = "vlightbox1" href="data/images1/cimg5427.jpg" title = "CIMG5427" > < img src="data/thumbnails1/cimg5427.jpg" alt = "CIMG5427" / > < / has >

  "" < a class = "vlightbox1" href="data/images1/cimg5429.jpg" title = "CIMG5429" > < img src="data/thumbnails1/cimg5429.jpg" alt = "CIMG5429" / > < / has >

  "' Y at - it a find which can be built that would release the titles of"title ="" '?

  Thanks in advance!...

  As a backup, copy your page before doing so.

  Find & replace (Ctrl + F)

  Find: current Document

  Search: specific tag one

  With the attribute href = any value

  + - With title attribute value = any

  Action: Set title attribute [empty]

  Hit replace all

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• Use Grep to find/replace

  I'm trying to find how to use GREP in find/replace of chage the formatting of a text which is a spreadsheet.

  I worked on the GREP query "~ b (\d\d) ~ b ', which is a paragraph return, followed by two digits, followed by another paragraph of return

  and then it is replaced by ' \t $1 ~ b ', which is a tab, found two numbers and a paratrooper returned.

  What I have to do is change the query to search for ANY number of digits, (which may be delimited by commas: e.g. 23, 36, 48, 50), then replace with a tab + found text.

  I guess what I'm looking for is a way for the query find "any text between two paragraph returns, no matter what that length", but I don't know how to do this. All of the generic options seem to find a single exampler (a figure, a character etc.)

  And you came so far

  Repetition operators are? (zero or one), * (zero or more) and + (one or more times). You can also specify the exact number: {at least up to the}.

  All of these operators are "greedy" by default - they match as much as possible. To to match as less as possible (which I'm sure you will come, sooner or later), add another? After the expression of repeat.

  If this is a number, then possibly another (which will be always included):

  \D\d?

  and what a figure, then zero or as much as 9999999,93856 million:

  \D\d*

  which is functionally identical

  \d+

  And it is between 3 and 8 figures but will be forced to use the shortest possible match:

  \d{3,8}?

  Having said that: a quick & dirty solution for your real problem is to find any amount of numbers, spaces, and comma:

  ~ b [\d,] + ~ b

  (there are more here because otherwise it would correspond also to an empty line). The [..] a list of the hooks - it will match to any unique inside code.

  A more complicated but 'cleaner' way is looking very precisely that for many, comma, space, number sequences - it is cleaner because it lines poorly trained (comma without a space) is fried!

  (She also has another code - operators in parentheses. Look at their place in a good reference GREP - lost people are enthusiastic about Peter Kahrel O'Reilly title, because there on the use of GREP in InDesign.)

  ~b\d+(, \d+)*~b)