Find/Change text + glyph in CS6, perhaps using InDesign GREP?

[lekkerder]

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.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

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? 

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

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. 🙂

[lekkerder]

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.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

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. 

[Eugene Tyson]

I know it's not. Just seems that way