Is there an up-to-date guide to Hidden Characters?

[turner111]

Looking for a guide to all Hidden Characters.

Help from within InDesign does not give any results, and I haven't found much else.

thanks!

[Manan Joshi]

Check out the following link

https://indiscripts.com/blog/public/data/idcs4-special-characters/en_InDesignCS4SpecialChars.pdf

-Manan

[turner111]

Thank you!

I guess they haven't changed in a long time?

[Manan Joshi]

The one's existing when the document was made i.e. CS4 have very little chance of being changed. The only thing is if some new have been added since then. For that case you can always come back here and we will find them for you.

-Manan

[turner111]

Thanks again -

Ok, so, yes, that's what I'm asking - where can I find a current, comprehensive list?

Maybe it doesn't exist?

cheers

[Manan Joshi]

I am not sure if such a list exists except the one I shared. Adobe has not released a comprehensive one the last time I checked. I would still suggest that you start your work with the list I gave and do let us know if you come across some character not in that list.

-Manan

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

The only place to look for would be the SDK... and one of the .h files.

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com · Accepted solution]

Marc Autret is the owner of IndiScripts.com. At some point I downloaded a newer version of the chart shown above, released in 2011 and titled "InDesign CS4/CS5" rather than just "CS4." It contains a few more characters and some corrections, AFAK.

Mike Witherell of JetSet Communications publishes InDesign character charts. His is more up to date than IndiScripts' above and includes many of the traditional metacharacters left out of IndiScripts (like ^p or end of paragraph used in InDesign's find/change): https://jetsetcom.net/shop/1-adobe-indesign/54-adobe-indesign-2023-list-of-grep-and-metacharacters.h...

I use both: with both of them, I can usually find what I need for all kinds of programming and automation with InDesign ... GREP, traditional Find/Change, automated publishing, HTML.

[Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com]

And thanks to both guys — @Mike Witherell  and  @Marc Autret  — for creating these comprehensive lists. So helpful to the industry!

[rob day]

There’s also this from InDesign Secrets:

https://creativepro.com/downloads/guide_specialchars-2012.pdf

[Mike Witherell]

My listing also includes icons you will see in InCopy. I recently added an extra page of written term definitions. I must say, tho, with the last 4 years of InDesign, it is hard to spot all the onscreen ornaments and icons. I hope I found them all!