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Nice job, go get yourself a beer. Very much appreciated.
Hyphenation though - thought when I turned this off [no doc opened so it becomes default] this stays off even with a new install? Have to watch that, because again, these defaults are not useful, they are dumb-downing things. Very much Microsoft-Wordian... ugh. Let's toss in all the tools because they need all the tools.
Thinking of the new kids - I started out with Adobe Illustrator '88, probably one of the first people in Toronto to install it... the new kids don't know, they don't have the experience, so these settings are letting them create documents with entirely wrong formatting. Technical documents DO NOT require ligatures. A nice coffee table book, yes. So how many coffee table books do people get to work on?
Big fat nope on ligatures, they need only be turned on when desired. As a default - absolutely stupid.
Glyphs - if I need to find it, I will find it, I don't need several suggestions thrown into my face and preventing me from typing a simple number into my document.
Have a great day Eugene!
Hyphenation though - thought when I turned this off [no doc opened so it becomes default] this stays off even with a new install? Have to watch that, because again, these defaults are not useful,
Hi @AndrewC1264 , You should be able to migrate your preferences on an update—I’ve been using ID since version 1 and have never had to rebuild my preferences.
There is no chance the default preferences will change unless you post a feature request and get others to vote for your request. https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601021-adobe-indesign-feature-requests
Personally I think ligatures depend on the font not the document’s content—I want them on for InDesign’s default Minion, but would turn them off for a monospaced font like Courier, but that’s my preference and I don’t expect it to be universal.
You can script the application defaults for new documents. This sets the text default (and any default application styles you may have created) to ligatures off.
app.textDefaults.ligatures = false;
var ps = app.allParagraphStyles;
for (var i = 1; i < ps.length; i++){
ps[i].ligatures = false;
};
var cs = app.allCharacterStyles;
for (var j = 1; j < cs.length; j++){
cs[j].ligatures = false;
};
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