Re: GREP Style Question

Peter Kahrel · Dec 29, 2025

In the Change format, you specify the paragraph style that's applied to the project name. That's the one in which you apply the space before.

Peter Kahrel · Dec 29, 2025

Well, you apply a paragraph style to the project name, so you can add the space before in the paragraph style:

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 28, 2025

Please post your comments and feature request in https://indesign.uservoice.com

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 28, 2025

@jctremblay -- A flex object is not itself an anchored object. In some ways a flex object looks like a group. You can anchor a flex object in another text frame as usual though (grab the top-right solid blue rectangle and drag it into a frame), and then (naturally) it'll be a regular anchored object. Sorry, I got that wrong. You're right, the flexObject object is lacking the anchoredObjectSettings property.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 23, 2025

Joel's suggestion makes perfect sense to me, so I would go for his method. Just for the record, I wrongly suggested running the script against your database because I foolishly thought that it's an InDesign file. And I fixed the script. (The reason why this newer version won't make any difference is that the script basically works the same; the only change was that it now supports character style groups. Had forgotten the details earlier.) Anyway, try Joel's suggestion and see how you fare.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 22, 2025

You don't seem to use the latest version of the script, so start by trying that one, though I can't imagine that it'll make much difference. The better approach in your case is probably to run the script against your database, which is undoubtedly much smaller than the file created by the merge.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 21, 2025

True -- if a note is on a single page, keeps won't work. So, Michel, tell us all about your idea.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 21, 2025

Balance Ragged Lines doesn't work because of the right-indent tab. Because of that tab, ID has nothing to go by for determining how to unrag the paragraphs. The only way to get ragged lines to balance is to remove the right-indent tab and use e.g. an en- or em-space. If you do want to use right-indent tabs, then you can simulate raaged balancing by applying No Break or replacing some spaces with non-breaking ones. It'll be a manual job.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 21, 2025

I wouldn't even use a script for that. I was going (but forgot) to mention to Lula that you can change the number of footnote line by setting/changing the Keeps in the footnote paragraphs (which is probably how @FRIdNGE's script works). Varying footnote lines on a page/spread is a good way to avoid widows and orphans and can help in other ways to compose pages. So you're probably not always (if ever) after perfectly balanced footnotes on a spread.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 20, 2025

Makes perfect sense. But to submit a feature request, please go to https://indesign.uservoice.com

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 18, 2025

On p. 210 you start a new story, which resets the footnote start number. Thread the frame to the one on the previous page and the note numbers continue as expected. On p. 210 is another, empty, frame, which is threaded to the frame on p. 209. So if you select the frame on p. 209 it looks as if you have a continuously threaded story, but you don't.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 18, 2025

If the project name always immediately precedes the Location tag, then you can use this GREP query: Find what: ^.+\r(?=Location) Change to: <Leave empty> Change format: The paragraph style used for the project name

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 18, 2025

When I open your document the note on p. 213 is 181, which is probably correct (in the sense that it's no longer 1). If you still see note number, recompose the document. Just typing any character in the story and deleting it should be enough. Also toggle the screen mode between Noral and Preview to update the screen. Does any of that help?

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 18, 2025

Well, that's odd. Can you post your document so that we can have a look?

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 18, 2025

Sorry, the better way would have been to set the footnote options not to restart anywhere. Go to Type > Document Footnote Options and remove the chack mark at Restart Numbering Every:

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 18, 2025

Activare the page, then open the Pages panel (Window > Pages). If you see a small black triangle above the page in the panel, the page starts a new section. To remove it, open the Numbering & Section Options dialog: in the Pages panel, click the hamburger icon (the four small horizontal rules in the top-right of the Pages panel), then select Numbering & Section Options. Uncheck the Start Section checkbox.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 18, 2025

Does the right-hand page start a new section and is footnote numbering set to start at each new section?

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 17, 2025

The only thing I can think of is possible word breaks. Those symbols are in places where hyphens can be placed.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 17, 2025

You can create an object style and set its Nonprinting attribute. That way you can toggle the visibility of objects in print (and PDF, Epub).

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 16, 2025

I don't think that this is a good case for nested styles, GREP or otherwise. In Rob's example, the use of nested styles depends on the presence of en spaces, which may not be the case. Furthermore, april mentions that they want to add a tab, and you can't add characters using a nested style. The straightforward way to deal with this is a couple of Find/Change queries. Some apply bold to the labels (Location, consultant role, etc), and some apply bold and insert a tab (Service ID, etc.). Three or four queries would do it, and if files like these come up regularly those queries can be excecuted in one go by any of the several scripts that let you batch-run any number of Find/Change queries .

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 16, 2025

Its name is 'not sign', its unicode value is 00AC. On many keyboards (UK English e.g.) it's the top-left character (left of the !1 key). To find it, either enter it in the Find what field in the Find/Change window, or, if your keyboard doesn't have the character, copy it and paste it into the Find What field.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 12, 2025

If you have a script that inserts the advertisement number in a document, you can use a batch processor to run that script against folderfuls of documents. Two such scripts are https://kasyan.ho.ua/indesign/batch_process_scripts/batch_process_scripts.html https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/batch_convert.html

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 11, 2025

The dots represent spaces when you enable the display of hidden characters. To disable that: Type > Show/Hide Hidden Characters.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 10, 2025

Please report this at https://indesign.uservoice.com

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 09, 2025

Tightening and/or loosening individual paragraphs should be done subtly, and the the change in word spacing should be propagated across the spread. Page with one tight or loose paragraph usually looks bad. An empty line at the foot of the frame is ok if the frame on the facing page is a line short as well. If it isn't, you can make the pages on a previous spread longer or shorter.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 09, 2025

To check whether Rob's idea is relevant to your case, could you post a screenshot of a page with just body text (i.e. no headings or secondary material), with the baseline grid shown? You can also check out this script: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/page_set-up.html If what Rob wrote applies to your set-up, the script can be used to fix that.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 08, 2025

Indeed, don't give up! When you place your Word document in InDesign the table will be preserved, but a table is probably not the best way yo handle your dialogues. The reason is that unlike in Word, InDesign's table cells don't break across pages, which means all stretches of speech will be kept together. You can end up with pretty gappy pages. But there's a much better way to handle that, using hanging indents. It's easy to change that after you place the table, see the attached video.. All you need to do is to convert the table to text and to set the paragraph's left indent and negative first-line indent. If you want to style the initials of the speakers you can use a nested style.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 04, 2025

You can set the internal spacing, so to speak, of a block of similar paragraphs. So if you have a paragraph style X, you set the space before and/or after, and the internal spacing to 0. It's the option highlighted in the screenshot. If that doesn't work for you, and you need something more like conditional styling, then you should look at this plug-in: https://creativepro.com/conditional-styling-rules-for-indesign/

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 04, 2025

Maybe ask Mike Rankin in a comment in the post that you linked.

Peter Kahrel · ‎Dec 04, 2025

Sorry, @Marshall_Brooks, forgot you were in FrameMaker. Not as if you didn't mention it! The issue is probably, as you say, that you can style the whole button (or static, etc.) text, but not part of it.

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