Re: Notas al final en un documento Libro formado p...

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 23, 2025

See https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/endnotes-to-end-of-book-notes.html The page describes a method to do end-of-book notes. It looks complicated but it isn't, really. The first method doesn't use any scripts, but that covers relatively simple notes. For more complicated set-ups, such as page-references in running headers and/or index markers in the endnotes, some scripts are needed (and are provided).

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 19, 2025

Well, yes, it would be useful if different hyphenation conventions were available, such as English UK (OUP), English UK (Collins), English US (Webster), etc. Or get a third-party developer interested enough to produce a plug-in. If you want to try to get Adobe interested, go to https://indesign.uservoice.com

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 15, 2025

> DeepL, in my opinion, is a copy of Google This is patently wrong. DeepL is much better in my experience. I mainly use DeepL to translate phrases from Spanish to English and regularly compare it to Google's translator, and most of the time DeepL is better, more appropriate. Google Translate often struggles with standard phrases and idioms.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 11, 2025

Several times people have pointed out to you that you should use the multiLine property. See https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/scriptui.html for details and examples.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 11, 2025

Well, the best experts would be those who wrote the plug-in (65bit). So maybe you should write to them. Or read their manual (if they have one).

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 10, 2025

So you see, @Dario DBZ Zanfardin , there's a way to do it, preferably with a script.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 10, 2025

There is no variable in the sense of text variable. A script could go to the first page of a section, read the section market's content, add a text frame on the page, add a text anchor named for the section marker. Then create a cross-ref to that anchor.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 10, 2025

Yes, but you'd have to override the section marker and apply the style (or a text anchor). Then you need to undo it when the document changes.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 10, 2025

I see. No, unfortunately that's not possible, the only cross-reference targets are those in the screenshots I posted.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 10, 2025

Use paragraph number, it's used for sections as well: Unless you're using chapter numbers as section numbers, in which case you can add it from the fly-out menu by pressing the +:

Peter Kahrel · ‎Sep 08, 2025

With the node selected, convert it to Smooth: [Barb beat me to it with a different approach]

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 26, 2025

Thanks, Uwe. That's fixed now.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 26, 2025

The script works fine in ID 2025. What problem do you see? Any error messages?

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 25, 2025

It is a PDF. You can't have read it in any other way.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 25, 2025

https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/scriptui.html

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 24, 2025

Correct: cell styles lack the keep option, which is a great omission. Join the crowds at https://indesign.uservoice.com and vote for the user request. > I cannot apply a keyboard shortcut to a specific element inside that menu. Wrong: in the keyboard editor, go to the Text and Tables area, you'll find Keep with next row there:

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 24, 2025

As Eugene mentioned, if you want the footnotes at the foot of the page, you'll have to have all the text in a single text frame. That seems possible when you incorporate the text that's now in separate frames into the main text, and set it (what used to be in separate frames) in two columns (Type > Paragraph > Span columns > select Split columns). Text anchors, also mentioned by Eugene, are an option but they dob't split across pages.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 22, 2025

In addition to what Willi mentioned: - Your justification settings are fine (though purists will frown at glyph scaling) - Allow hyphenation, making sure to set the spacing/hyphen slider to the left (better spacing, but more hyphens). If the author then starts moaning about the hyphens, set the slider at the middle. Best would be to prepare a few samples with different settings and ask the author to pick what they like best.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 21, 2025

If I were you I'd convert those GREP styles to local styles. In documents with long stories, GREP styles usually cause delays. You can use a script to do that: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/grep-styles-to-local-styles.html Saving your documents using Save As reduces their size lot (by deleting the document's undo history), which tends to make things smoother. And disable preflight, hide all panels -- the accumulation of all these things make a difference.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 21, 2025

Joel is spot-on. My script looks for all text anchors (hyperlinkTextDestinations for JavaScript) -- that's the easy part. But the anchors don't tell you what they're used for, so you have to bend over backwards to find whether they's used for cross-references, hyperlinks, bookmarks, or whatever. Using the F/C window is useless: you can look for <FEFF> but you can't do anything with what you found. A script thinks that though what you find has length 1, it has no content. I don't know in what way you want to manage ankers and cross-refs, but to find all text anchors that are part of cross-references, you should collect all hyperlinks, then get those whose destinations are a HyperlinkTextDestination and whose source is a CrossReferenceSources. Along these lines: hlinks = app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.everyItem().getElements(); for (i = 0; i < hlinks.length; i++) { if (hlinks[i].destination instanceof HyperlinkTextDestination && hlinks[i].source instanceof CrossReferenceSource) { // Your custom function doSomethingWithTextAnchor (hlinks[i].destination); } }

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 21, 2025

It's not possible. The Index panel shows only the cross- and page references in open documents. To do consistency checks you'll have to generate the index from time to time. But 1,000+ pages in 18 documents isn't that outrageous, InDesign easily handles that in my experience. Are the illustrations you mention embedded? Do you use (a lot of) GREP styles? Anything else that slows down InDesign and/or makes it crash? P.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 20, 2025

You can use Add All in the New Page Reference window: But there's no shortcut key for that.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 20, 2025

Start a new document, then File > Place. Enable the 'Show Import Options' box, then select the Word file.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 18, 2025

A simple fix that often (not always!) works: if your Word file is .doc, save it in Word as .docx. Conversely, if it is a .docx file, save it as .doc.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 17, 2025

First question: do you want to add index markers in the InDesign document, or do you want to produce an index straight away, bypassing InDesign's index feature? If the second, i.e. to create an independent index, you can try Indiscripts :: IndexMatic³ or https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/index_independent.html If you want to mark up the InDesign document with index markers, use https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/index_from_wordlist.html Since you're indexing bible books and chapters it may be better to add index markers so that you have more control over how the index is sorted.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 16, 2025

Read only that last link page (index-page-ranges.html), it describes a script with which you can use end-of-range markers. It's really pretty straightforward. > Am I right about it not being all that hard for Adobe to add to the program? Correct. There are several ways. InDesign an be extended with plug-ins (written in C++, which is also what InDesign itself was written in) and scripts, which can be JavaScript, AppleScript, and VBasic. And since recently you can do UXP plug-ins, which use JavaScript. The end-of-range script I describe is a JavaScript.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 15, 2025

Very useful, thanks, Mark.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 14, 2025

You're absolutely right, InDesign should have endmarkers the way Latex, Word, WordPerfect, etc. etc. have them. And InDesign's index is pretty limited (and has several bugs), but with scripting it becomes a more than useful tool. See these two pages https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/lists_indexes.html https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/index-fixes.html and especially the following: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/index-page-ranges.html

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 13, 2025

Merging Electrocardiogram and Electrocardiograms is simple: just change the topic name in the Index panel. The same for ECG and ECGs. Then regenerate the index (all this assuming that you use InDesign's index). But then merging ECG and Electrocardiogram is another matter, that's not trivial and requires a script. If there aren't too many of these you can the following. In the generated index, starting from this: ECG 1, 3, 5 Electrocardiogram 2, 4 change that to ECG see Electrocardiogram Electrocardiogram 1, 3, 5 Electrocardiogram 2, 4 The us this script: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/index_update.html to merge the two. You can ru the script against the whole index. It's pssible to do a script that does this this in one go, but as I said, that's not trivial.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Aug 13, 2025

Strange behaviour. Is it just with language codes or also other codes that do (or should) not interfere with kerning? Discretionary hyphen, discretionary line break, text anchor, index marker, etc? Which font editor is that, by the way? And what do you mean by xD?

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