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We are trying to check for errors in a dictionary and wonder if it's possible to use Find/Change to search for a letter (for example, A) in Arial that is attached to a glyph (wingding) and replace it with A-space-glyph.
A second search would be for a glyph (wingding) attached to a letter in Arial and replace it with the wingding glyph-space-letter. See screenshot with an example for each of these Find/Change functions
If this is possible, please give detailed info and perhaps even a screenshot. . If we can get it to work, we would go through the alphabet (new searches for each letter). I read about InDesign GREP and wonder if this might be the way to do it.
Thanks.
GREP sounds complicated and risky for our situation. We have proofread the book 3 times and think the glyph/spacing issue is about 98% correct. We were wondering if there's an easy way to give it a final check.
Not really, with the text formatting you've chosen. The three-step process is not particularly difficult and would cost nothing to try — on a copy of your work file/s, of course.
A potentially simpler approach would be to replace all instances of the glyph with [space][glyph][space],
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IMVHO, stripping double spaces, return-space and space-return combinations is an essential late/last stage cleanup for publication. (Also space-tab and tab-space, and for meticulously formatted work, multiple tabs and returns.)
By @James Gifford—NitroPress
I think it always should be the first / initial step?
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You're correct: all that stripping should be done as a first or early stage in formatting an imported manuscript. To leave those in place means a lot of work will be 'fragile' if not wasted.
I meant that it should be repeated at or near the end to catch all such glitches that creep in from editing and formatting. I always catch a few. 🙂
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IMVHO, stripping double spaces, return-space and space-return combinations is an essential late/last stage cleanup for publication. (Also space-tab and tab-space, and for meticulously formatted work, multiple tabs and returns.)
By @James Gifford—NitroPress
Agree. I have a list we used for an earlier edition that didn't use a glyph/unicode.
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Yeh was just looking at doing both at the same time
But you can't.
I even applied character styles to the letters and it swaps the character styles.
That seems like very unwanted buggy behaviour.
By @Eugene Tyson
No, it's not a bug.
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I know it's not. Just seems that way