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MDDSGNR
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February 6, 2024
Question

Indesign Bullets and Numbering format styles

  • February 6, 2024
  • 2 replies
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Hi everyone,

I have been searching for a long time and unfortunately I could not find any solution. My problem is this: I want to make list numbering in Indesign using special characters (like Turkish letters; ç, ğ, ş, ı) but I could not find a way to do it.

I want an ordered list as follows

a) Lorem ipsum
b)
c)
ç)
d)
.
.
.
ğ)

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you...

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2 replies

James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
February 6, 2024

I think the only solution for this, for all the languages that use a non-English alphabet, would be to create a specially mapped font (replace the standard Roman alphabet with the glyphs for the base alphabet of that language). Not too hard with a font editor, but tedious, easy to misuse without caution, and of course all numbering would be limited to those edited faces.

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
February 6, 2024
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I think the only solution for this, for all the languages that use a non-English alphabet, would be to create a specially mapped font (replace the standard Roman alphabet with the glyphs for the base alphabet of that language). Not too hard with a font editor, but tedious, easy to misuse without caution, and of course all numbering would be limited to those edited faces.


By @James Gifford—NitroPress

 

Yeah, for up to 27 entries on the list... 

 

But, as always, could be easily scripted - regular style + some separator between the letter and text.

 

Then, it could be anything - hexadecimal counting - 0-9A-F, icons, etc.

 

James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
February 6, 2024

Yeah, scripting, of course. 🙂

 

Where does lowercase-letter numbering go past 'z'? I thought it went to 'aa' etc., which would seem to work with a remapped font.

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
February 6, 2024

By default, InDesign is only using English alphabet - no extras.